Recommended Databases:
- ERIC
- Education Abstracts
- Professional Development Collection
- SocIndex
- PsycInfo
- SAGE Journals
Database searches:
- Click each link below to see the results for that search
- After clicking the links below, double-check under Source Types that “Academic Journals” is selected
- After clicking the links below, you can edit and add to the search using the search boxes at the top of the page
- The following searches were performed in these four databases simultaneously:
- ERIC
- Education Abstracts
- Professional Development Collection
- SocIndex
Competency based learning:
AB ( competency-based education or competency-based learning ) AND SU ( higher education or college or university ) Peer reviewed, Academic Journals, 2019-2025
Universal Design for Learning (UDL):
AB ( universal design for learning or UDL ) AND SU ( higher education or college or university or post secondary or postsecondary ) Peer reviewed, Academic Journals, 2019-2025
Experiential Learning:
AB ( experiential learning or experiential education or problem based learning or active learning ) AND SU ( higher education or college or university or post secondary or postsecondary ) AND ( first year students or freshman or freshmen ) Peer reviewed, academic journals, 2019-2025
Backward Design:
( backward design or backwards design ) AND ( higher education or college or university or post secondary or postsecondary ) Peer reviewed, academic journals, 2019-2025
Metacognition:
SU metacognition AND SU (higher education or college or university or post secondary or postsecondary) Peer reviewed, academic journals, 2019-2024
Other potential search terms to try:
- NOTE: the word ‘instruction’ is used in many cases instead of the word ‘pedagogy,' try searching for either term using Boolean OR
- Higher education and pedagogy
- College instruction, college teaching
- Writing instruction
- Instructional design
- Teaching methods
- scaffolding
- active classroom
- inquiry based learning
- thinking classroom
- AI and pedagogy
- (neurodiverse OR neurodivergent OR neurodiversity) and pedagogy
- digital support
- Teaching techniques
- Experiential pedagogy
- First year experience
- Engaging first year students
- Faculty student classroom engagement