Community-based Teaching,
Learning & Research

2014 - Current

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I have spent considerable effort focusing on the scholarship of teaching. I received University-wide recognition of my efforts in this scholarship when I received the University of North Florida Community-Engaged Scholarship award in 2018. This award reflects my commitment to community-based scholarship and rigorously examining my teaching, but it also represents my commitment to community-based research principles. A community-based approach to research increases the ecological validity, or how much my research can be applied in a meaningful way. My work should benefit the community from which I am gathering data and be informed by their expressed needs. Scholars should examine if their research interests are also something community members see as important. Furthermore, study results should be presented back to the community stakeholders and not just disseminating my work to academic outlets.

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TIE Lab Alums Who Assisted with this Research

Jenny Barton, Anna Lall, Kimberly Harrington, Amanda Moscrip, Christine Beasley (Rentz), Holli Causey

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Nicholson, J. S., Richard, D., & Winterbottom, C. (2020).

Community-based transformational learning: What’s in a Name? In C. Winterbottom, J. Nicholson, & D. Richard (Eds). Community-based transformational learning: An interdisciplinary inquiry into its benefits and challenges. Bloomsbury Press, London.

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Barton, J. M.*, Nicholson, J. S., & Truelove, H. B. (2020).

Investigating the effectiveness of a community-based activity on community-service attitudes. In C. Winterbottom, J. Nicholson, & D. Richard (Eds). Community-based transformational learning: An interdisciplinary inquiry into its benefits and challenges. Bloomsbury Press, London.

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Winterbottom, C., Richard, F. D., & Nicholson, J. S. (2020).

Student-centered learning: Investigating the impact of community-based transformational learning experiences on university students. In The Routledge Handbook of Student-Centered Learning and Instruction in Higher Education (S. Hoidn & M. Klemenčič). Routledge.

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Nicholson, J. S., Truelove, H., Barton, J.*, & Moulder, R.* (2016).

​​Measuring college students’ community service attitudes validly and efficiently: Development of a short version of the Community Service Attitudes Scale. Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 8(4), 18-28.

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Nicholson, J. S. (October, 2015).

Speed-dating with theorists: Helping students fall in love with theorists of human development. Developments: Newsletter of the Society for Research in Child Development, 58(4), 9-10.