About CASTLE

What is CASTLE?

• CASTLE is a community of faculty scholars devoted to the study of learning within the disciplines.
• 20% of The Citadel faculty participate in bi-weekly meetings
• A large percentage of Academic Departments participate in CASTLE activities
• See CASTLE Guiding Principles

How does CASTLE work?

• Interested faculty meet twice a month to discuss the methodology of classroom research and the progress of ongoing projects.
• A variety of disciplines are represented in the group: Biology, Chemistry, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Education, English, Health, Exercise and Sport Science, Math and Computer Science, Modern Languages, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Business administration and Special Services.

What has CASTLE accomplished?

• 14 individual/group classroom research projects were implemented in 2001
• 13 conference presentations about CASTLE and/or classroom research projects
• 3 on campus workshops about the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL)
• 5 reports filed with CASTLE

What's Next?

• Continue our classroom research projects
• Discuss our research data and assessment
• Present and publish our research findings
• Submit proposals to the research committee to facilitate this research
• Submit applications to the faculty development committee to support attendence at education meetings
• Report the activities of this group to The Citadel campus and to the Carnegie Academy via reports every six months