Georgia Southern Professor Wins National Award
Georgia Southern Professor Wins National Award
A Georgia Southern University professor of management has won an award for work on a scholarly article about teaching and learning. On June 1 at The Teaching Professor Conference in New Orleans, Misty Loughry, Ph.D., and her colleagues received the Maryellen Weimer Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning Award, which “recognizes outstanding scholarly contributions with the potential to advance college-level teaching and learning practices,” Loughry said.
The winning paper was titled, “The comprehensive assessment of team member effectiveness: Development of a behaviorally anchored rating scale for self-and peer evaluation.” The paper was one of more than 100 articles nominated. Articles published in any pedagogical journal from any discipline, or a cross-disciplinary journal or higher education journal can be considered for the award.
Winning the award, Loughry said, is an outstanding feeling. “It’s really exciting that we’re starting to see so many indicators of how good the CATME system is, and one indicator is getting this award,” Loughry said.
Loughry said she and other members of the Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME) development team have worked on the content since 2002, beginning with the goal of developing a peer evaluation instrument for college students. The system was later expanded to include other web-based tools to help students understand how to be effective team members.
“With the work we’ve been doing, we’re publishing the research and publishing it in good outlets,” she added. “And it’s rigorous scholarly work, but it’s actually having an impact on 150,000-some odd students, over 3,300 faculty and 693 institutions around the world, so it’s an awesome feeling.”
The article was published in December 2012 in Academy of Management Learning& Education. For more information, see www.CATME.org.
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