چکیده (انگلیسی):

This paper describes designing and implementing a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL)
study in a basic electrical circuits course at LaGuardia Community College. Inspired by my
understanding of Shulman’s (2005) concept of “signature pedagogy” and Mazur’s (2009)
emphasis on student-centered approaches, and aware that our students did not always understand
the electrical theory concepts presented in class, I decided to change my pedagogy. We explain
our efforts to train our students to think as engineers, first by making them more “visible” and
“accountable” in the classroom, and second, by offering them hands-on practice through the use
of Multisim, a free and open source simulation software. The study presented here reports the
effect that using Multisim had on our students’ ability to learn and apply electrical theories and
concepts. The implications for the teaching of the basic electrical circuit course are offered as
well as my reflection on my own growth as a teacher and my developing understanding of the
scholarship of teaching and learning.