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Cynthia Weston is a Professor in the Department of
Educational and Counselling Psychology and former Director
of the Centre for University Teaching and Learning. Her teaching
and research over the past 23 years at McGill has focussed
on teaching and learning in higher education (e.g., course
and instructional design, evaluating student learning, use
of new technologies in teaching)
Her current research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada, focuses on two areas. The first explores professors’ use of
reflection as a mechanism for improving teaching and constructing knowledge about
teaching. The research team has built a model of reflection and is now investigating
the impact of professor reflection on student experience of learning. In the
second area of research we explore characteristics of on line learning and how
we can help faculty members effectively integrate technology in higher education.
Some current faculty development projects focus on enhancing teaching and assessment
in surgical contexts, and developing teaching portfolios as part of tenure and
promotion dossiers.
Publications and Presentations
The following publications and presentations are not directly related to this
research project. For related publications and presentations go to the "PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS" page
of this site.
(* indicates author is graduate student)
Perlman, C. Weston, C. & Gisel, E. (in press). A Web-based tutorial to enhance
student learning of activity analysis. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy.
L. McAlpine, C. Weston, D. Berthiaume, and G. Fairbank-Roch (in press). How do
professors explain their thinking when planning and teaching? Higher Education.
McAlpine, L., Weston, C., Berthiaume, D., & Fairbank-Roch, G., Owen, M. (in
press). Reflection on teaching: Types and goals of reflection. ERE Special
issue on post-secondary education
McAlpine, L. & Weston, C. (2000). Reflection: Issues related to improving
professors’ teaching and students’ learning. Instructional Science,
28, 363-385.
Weston, C., Gandell, T., McAlpine, L. & *Finkelstein, A. (1999). Designing
instruction for the context of on-line learning. The Internet and Higher
Education, 2 (1), 35-44.
**McAlpine, L., Weston, C., *Beauchamp, C. *Wiseman, & J., *Beauchamp. (1999).
Monitoring student cues: Tracking student behavior to improve instruction in
higher education. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, XXIX-2 (3),
113-144. ** RECEIVED THE SHEFFIELD AWARD FROM CSSHE
McAlpine, L., Weston, C., *Beauchamp, J., *Wiseman, C., & *Beauchamp, C.
(1999). Building a metacognitive model of reflection. Higher Education,
37, 105-131.
Weston, C. & McAlpine, L. (1998). How six outstanding mathematics professors
view teaching and learning: The importance of caring. International Journal
of Academic Development, 3(2), 146-155.
Contributions to Collective Works
Weston, C. & McAlpine, L. (2004). Evaluating student learning. In A. Saroyan & C.
Amundsen (Eds.) Rethinking teaching in higher education: From a course design
workshop to a faculty development framework (pp. 95-113). Sterling, VA:
Stylus Publishing.
Saroyan, A., Weston, C., McAlpine, L. & Cowan, S. (2004). The final step:
Evaluation of teaching. In A. Saroyan & C. Amundsen (Eds.) Rethinking
teaching in higher education: From a course design workshop to a faculty development
framework (pp.115-130). Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
Saroyan, A., Amundsen, C., Weston, C., McAlpine, L., Winer, L., Cowan, S., & Gandell,
T. (2004). The course design and teaching workshop: Why and what? In A. Saroyan & C.
Amundsen, (Eds.) Rethinking teaching in higher education: From a course design
workshop to a faculty development framework (pp. 3-14). Sterling, VA: Stylus
Publishing.
Saroyan, A., Amundsen, C., McAlpine, L., Weston, C., Winer, L. & Gandell,
T. (2004). Assumptions underlying workshop activities. In A. Saroyan & C.
Amundsen, (Eds.) Rethinking teaching in higher education: From a course design
workshop to a faculty development framework (pp. 15-29). Sterling, VA: Stylus
Publishing.
McAlpine, L. & Weston, C. (2002). Reflection: Issues related to improving
professors’ teaching and students’ learning. In N. Hativa & P.
Goodyear (Eds.), Teacher thinking, beliefs and knowledge in higher education.
(pp. 59-78). Netherlands: Kluwer,
Weston, C & McAlpine, L. (2001). Making explicit the development toward the
scholarship of teaching. In Kreber, C. (Ed.). Scholarship revisited: Perspectives
on the scholarship of teaching: New Directions for Teaching and Learning,
#86 (pp. 89-97). San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
Gandell, T., Weston, C., *Finkelstein, A. & Winer, L. (2000). Appropriate
use of the web in teaching in higher education. In B. Mann (Ed.), Perspectives
in web course management (pp. 61-68). Ottawa: Canadian Scholars’ Press. |
