Conclusion
Classroom Action Research fits comfortably under the umbrella of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Along with traditional educational research and course portfolios, CAR is a way of systematically examining teaching to gain new insights. One can certainly be an excellent teacher without engaging in CAR (or other types of SoTL), but participation in some version of SoTL enhances one's knowledge of the profession of teaching. CAR is very attractive to faculty at all types of institutions. Those at primarily research institutions may welcome the opportunity to look at teaching with the same scholarly eye that they use for disciplinary
research. Those at primarily teaching institutions (including vocational tech and community colleges) usually lack support for disciplinary research. They may find that their institutions provide a rich source of CAR data and that administrators appreciate these research endeavors.The editors of JoSoTL agree that Classroom Action Research is an appropriate form of the scholarship of teaching and learning. JoSoTL is eager to receive submissions of CAR articles and will evaluate them using rubric provided here.