Sketchnoting as a Pedagogical Tool: The Power of Teaching, Research, and Assessment Collaborations

• In Event: Hilton Roundtable Session 5
  In Roundtable Session: Understanding Learning Outcomes Through Students' Beliefs, Perspectives, and Interests

Abstract

Sketchnoting is a design methodology that involves communicating concepts visually. This tool has shown potential for influencing student learning but its applications have been limited. Adopting the principles of research related to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, our interdisciplinary team of researchers and teachers from industrial design, biology, and education incorporated this pedagogical tool in an upper-level ecology course and subsequently assessed its effectiveness. Our study explored student’s perceptions of Sketchnoting and the relationship between Sketchnoting technique and mastery of content. We found that students’ perceptions of the values using tools such as Sketchnoting did not increase but over two-thirds of students found the tool valuable and would recommend it to other students.

Authors

• Ann Marie Gansemer-Topf, Iowa State University

• James Joseph Schiltz, Iowa State University

• Ann Russell, Iowa State University

• Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness, Iowa State University