Rick Moore

Associate Director for Faculty Programming

Washington University in St. Louis Center for Teaching and Learning

Biography

Rick Moore, PhD, is currently the Associate Director for Faculty Programming at WashU's Center for Teaching and Learning. He is also a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and is affiliated with Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity. Rick earned his PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago and an MA in Religion from Columbia University. Rick has extensive experience in the areas of educational development, assessment, and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). He helps solve teaching challenges and improve student learning through one-on-one consultations with instructors, interactive workshops, and other programming. Rick has collected and analyzed a variety of data to answer teaching-and-learning-related questions, including surveys, custom learning assessments, student evaluations, structured classroom observations (COPUS), and ethnographic fieldnotes. Rick also co-facilitates a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Seminar open to graduate students and postdocs.