Please join us for a webinar titled “Converting your Teaching Materials into Educational Scholarship through MedEdPORTAL.” This session, presented by Barney Beins, PhD, Associate Editor of Psychology, MedEdPORTAL, and Hannah Kittel, Lead Staff Editor, MedEdPORTAL, is focused on teaching psychology educators how to turn their teaching materials into educational scholarship that can be used for promotion. Participants will learn about the entire submission to publication process and the criteria used to evaluate the scholarly value of their materials.
MedEdPORTAL Publications (www.mededportal.org) is a free, online journal provided by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in partnership with the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) and the American Psychological Association (APA). Publications serves as the trusted source for free high quality peer reviewed educational teaching and assessment tools that have been classroom tested.
As a result of attending this presentation, participants should be able to:
- Describe the unique benefits of publishing in this peer-reviewed resource compared with traditional outlets;
- Delineate the steps to submit an educational resource for publication in MedEdPORTAL Publications;
- Interpret and address MedEdPORTAL Publications peer review criteria; and
- Cite and demonstrate the impact of MedEdPORTAL Publications as an example of educational scholarship.
About the Presenters
Bernard C. Beins, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Ithaca College where he has taught since 1986. He is the 2010 recipient of the Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching Award from the American Psychological Foundation. He is a Fellow of APA Division 1 (General Psychology), Division 2 (Teaching of Psychology), Division 3 (Experimental Psychology), and Division 52 (International Psychology); the Association for Psychological Science; and the Eastern Psychological Association. He is president-elect of the New England Psychological Association and was president of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP) in 2004 and secretary from 1992 to 1994. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and his doctorate from City University of New York. Much of his professional work involves the scholarship of teaching and learning, particularly writing, critical thinking, and statistics and research methods. In addition, he and his students conduct research on the psychology of humor, including the role of context in humor appreciation and the role of personality variables in humor. He is author of Research Methods: A Tool for Life and co-author with Maureen McCarthy of Research Methods and Statistics (both with Pearson/Allyn & Bacon) and co-author with Agatha Beins of Effective Writing in Psychology: Papers, Posters, and Presentations (Wiley-Blackwell) and author of a quick guide to APA style (Wiley-Blackwell). He has also co-edited several books on the teaching of psychology. During his career, he has published over 130 journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and other print and electronic material, and he has given over 240 conference presentations; his students have made over 100 research presentations.
Hannah Kittel is lead staff editor for MedEdPORTAL Publications at the Association of American Medical Colleges. As part of her current role, she leads the Faculty Mentor Program, an initiative that aims to increase the familiarity with and use of MedEdPORTAL. Hannah received a Bachelor of Arts in Physics with a pre-med concentration at Georgetown University and is currently working towards her Master of Public Health at George Washington University. Hannah has traveled across the United States and Canada speaking on behalf of MedEdPORTAL, and currently splits her time between Washington DC and in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee where she is helping to coordinate a county-wide council on aging.