PTF Impacts

Provost's Teaching Fellows have made lasting impacts in their departments, colleges and schools, all of the University of Texas, and even the broader scholarship of teaching and learning. Through both individual initiatives and university-wide programs, PTFs continue to serve as catalysts for positive change and further our campus culture of teaching and learning.

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Rigorously Compassionate Syllabi Website

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To learn more about the Rigorously Compassionate initiative at UT Austin, which focuses on combining empathy with academic excellence, visit their website:
Rigorously Compassionate Program

Effect on Students and Faculty of Implementation of a Comprehensive, Longitudinal Pharmacy Practice Laboratory Series into Doctor of Pharmacy Curriculum

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A poster presentation at a national conference describing the Pharmacy Practice Lab (PPL) sequence spanning all six semesters of the UTCOP didactic program to consolidate lab components and increase skills development while aligning with and reinforcing curriculum balance.

Pharmacy Practice Labs Promotional Video

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Two promotional videos were created to highlight the impact of Pharmacy Practice Labs and collaboration with UT Athletic Training.

 

View the videos: Pharmacy Practice Labs and Partnership with UT Athletic Training

University Writing Center Resources

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The University Writing Center has greatly expanded its STEM Writing training program to include all new consultants.

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Bridging Rhetoric and Engineering presentation and paper

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“Bridging Rhetoric and Engineering: Qualitative Results from a Writing Center Program to Improve Engineering Undergraduate Writing,” Proceedings from IEEE ProComm, 2024. Pittsburgh, PA (July 14-17, 2024). I delivered this co-authored conference paper at the IEEE ProComm conference. See the link for the paper.

 

View the presentation slides here

For more information, you can access the article with the DOI: 10.1109/ProComm61427.2024.00034.

Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) Performance Assessment of PharmD Student Pharmacists

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A poster presentation at a national pharmacy conference on the relationships between a student’s perceived preparedness before and after Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), OSCE grades, perception of their performance, pre-pharmacy and pharmacy GPAs, composite Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT) score, and admission Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) scores.

 

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Be Well to Do Well (Signature Course Resource)

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This is a video project designed to be shown in all Signature Courses at UT. Together with discussion prompt, the video aims to acquaint students with mental and physical health resources on campus, and to teach them strategies for success.

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Engineering Sentences through the Texas Snowpocalypse: Results of a collaboration between a University Writing Center and an Engineering Writing Course

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"Engineering Sentences through the Texas Snowpocalypse: Results of a Collaboration between a University Writing Center and an Engineering Writing Course" This conference presentation (co-authored with Hye Sun You) was delivered on Feb. 16, 2023, at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL. The slides are available in Texas ScholarWorks, The University of Texas Libraries.

 

https://hdl.handle.net/2152/124986

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Write from the Start: presentation and paper

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"Write from the Start: Mixed-Methods Results of a Collaboration between a First-Year Biomedical Engineering Class and a University Writing Center.” American Society for Engineering Education, Baltimore, MD, June 26, 2023. I delivered this co-authored presentation at the ASEE conference. The paper may be accessed through the link.

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Engineering Sentences at a Writing Center: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

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"Engineering Sentences at a Writing Center: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration" This virtual presentation about our pilot program was delivered at the College Composition and Communication Regional Conference, University of Southern California, Dec. 19, 2020  

 

Standardized elements for OCSE

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Created an OSCE rubric that was used as the foundation for future PTF projects and OSCE rubrics used within department.

View the rubric here