Starting SoTL Research
How Do I Start a SoTL Research Project?
The following Hopscotch model presents a SoTL Research project in the following nine steps:
- Who I am as Faculty SoTL-Researcher?
- What is the problem/need I want to study in my classroom?
- Evidence supporting the problem/need I want to study in my classroom.
- How I will study the problem/need?
- What questions will be driving the study of the problem/need?
- What data I will collect?
- How will I analyze the collected data?
- How I will ensure the trustworthiness of the process?
- What ethical principles will be guiding my study?
Much has been written about starting a SoTL research project. We recommend faculty who are new to SoTL Research first start with the Hopscotch 4 SoTL model.
Last updated: 5/1/2025
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