About TAR
What is TAR?
Teaching as Research (TAR) is a "choose-your-own-adventure" subprogram in the larger Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL). Our program is also supported by University Center for Assessment, Teaching, and Technology (UCATT), and our interdisciplinary learning community. The seminar is not a course in teaching theory, teaching methods or education research--it is a project-based learning community that requires self-direction and time management! See video to the right to hear from fellow CIRTL institution Texas A&M's graduate students about what interested them in TAR as future faculty members.
What you'll find here
On this website, you will find various projects conducted by graduate students around the University of Arizona campus. The main goal of the TAR project is to pick a learning outcome that students are curious about and find a means to study that outcome.
On the left, you will see the TAR Cycle and Seminar Flow that students progressed through. Students followed this cycle to practice performing their own research studies. As a result, you will see their final products on their individual pages.
Meet the Facilitators
Dr. Kristin Winet
Dr. Winet is an Associate Professor of Practice in the University Center for Assessment, Teaching, and Technology (UCATT) and the Program Administrator for CIRTL@UArizona. She is originally from the English Department, where she served as interim assistant director of the Writing Program and taught a variety of courses in writing and rhetoric. In addition to directing CIRTL, she co-facilitates the Teaching-as-Research (TAR) program, teaches in the Certificate of College Teaching (CCT), and facilitates a variety of workshops and mini-courses on writing pedagogy and inclusive teaching.
Dr. Byron Hempel
Dr. Byron Hempel received his PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona in 2019, having received his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Kentucky in 2014 and Masters in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Arizona in 2017. Working under Dr. Paul Blowers, his focus was on improving the classroom environment in higher education by working in the active classroom by using evidence-based teaching practices to improve student learning. This semester, he loves to rock climb, plays on the "Fierce Price" co-ed soccer team, and enjoys acro yoga.