[PSTUM-list] A pedagogy course for GTAs

I have been following the discussion on GTA preparation with great interest. In the summer of 2000 I was asked by our chair to develop a 3 credit hour graduate level "Pedagogy" course to be required of all new GTAs entering our department beginning in the fall. This I did, and new graduate students entering our department each fall term, 2000--2004, have been required to take "Pedagogy" in addition to the usual 9 hour load of traditional graduate math content course work. I have a graduate student who just completed a Masters Thesis in which he analyzed data from end-of-term course evaluations from several thousand students in classes taught by GTAs and data from interviews with GTAs who have taken Pedagogy. The primary conclusion supported by this analysis is that the pedagogy course is having a significant positive effect on the GTAs' level of confidence, with related impact on both their practice and attitudes with respect to teaching. I think the student as done some academically acceptable work and obtained some interesting and timely conclusions. I have assigned him the task of trimming his 60+ page thesis (double space) down to 25 pages, with the idea of perhaps submitting an article to a journal. My question to this list is "What are some reasonable journals for such submissions?" I will be most grateful for any recommendations you might have. Anyone interested in details pertaining to our pedagogy course can contact me at gary.harris(a)ttu.edu and I will be happy to provide you with more than you ever wanted to know about it. Gary A. Harris Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs Department of Mathematics and Statistics Texas Tech University