Reform Concepts
The several reform concepts presented in this section of the tutorial may be viewed as multiple origins or histories of SOTL. They are somewhat overlapping and sometimes difficult to isolate.

More on CATS (Unit 3a, Page 14)

More on Classroom Research (Unit 3a, Page 11)

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs)
K. Patricia Cross and Thomas Angelo pioneered this “do-it-yourself” approach to assessing conditions of learning in classrooms. Their 1993 book, Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (2nd Ed) Jossey-Bass is a famous work of scholarship of teaching and learning, reported to have sold more than 35,000 copies. Thousands of college and university teachers use CATs in their classrooms today, especially versions of the “one-minute paper,” and there is evidence of improved learning as a result. Angelo and Cross contributed to the current focus on learning but also hoped their book would influence faculty to go beyond application of CATs in the classroom … that it would in fact spark systematic classroom research which would in turn become a popular form of SOTL nationally … a form more useful to faculty than traditional educational research. The adoption of CATs became widespread, the adoption of classroom research much less so.

Classroom Research
In 1996, Cross with Mimi Steadman published a sequel book, Classroom Research: Implementing the Scholarship of Teaching, Jossey-Bass placing CATs in a broader research context. Again the hope was to institutionalize classroom research. However, as of yet, classroom research is still not nearly as widely employed as are CATs.