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How can we help change leaders understand how measurement and data can be used?
David Bressoud, Macalester College
ASCN Working Group 4: Demonstrating Impact is trying something new. This group's mission is to identify, explain, and disseminate information on metrics that hold the potential to document, foster, accelerate, and communicate systemic change. Good questions are a great way to share and expand knowledge. Each month a question of interest and value to the higher education community will be sent to the working group members. Responses will be collated and posted on the ASCN blog. We hope that this will lead to beneficial collaborations not just among the members of the working group, but also across the network, and will reach the larger higher education community interested in systemic change. The assumption behind this group is that measurement and data are effective mechanisms for facilitating change. The question for this month has two parts. How can we help change leaders understand how measurement and data can be used? Can you give an example from your own experience where this has happened? Below are the first three responses received. Please use comment section to respond to the question and to engage in a discussion about the current responses. If there is a link or citation that you think would be of value to other readers, please include this as well. In addition, if there are any questions you would like Demonstrating Impact Working Group to address, please email those to Inese, the ASCN Project Manager.

Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Surveys
× Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Surveys A suite of surveys for measuring student attitudes towards Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Suggested Citation University of Colorado Boulder. CLASS Index. ...

Implicit social cognition: from measures to mechanisms
Describes current trends in attending to, and measuring, implicit processes such as social perception, judgement and action.

Framing and Efficacy of University-Required Diversity Courses in the Research Literature
Christine Zabala Eisshofer, University of Oklahoma
This literature review examines the research in the last 30 years in relation to university-required diversity courses, as well as highlights areas that have been understudied. Utilizing the social justice rationale for diversity, this review analyzes 25 quantitative and qualitative research articles that address university-required diversity courses. This literature review unpacks the mixed results from quantitative studies as well as analyzes the case studies presented in qualitative research. The relevance to this collection is the authors point that outcomes-based analysis (grades, survey responses) are insufficient, but that to truely understand student experiences in the classroom, we must examine student work undertaken during the class.

The Postsecondary Instructional Practices Instrument (PIPS)
× The Postsecondary Instructional Practices Instrument (PIPS) Western Michigan has piloted survey measures to measure teaching and learning approaches. Suggested Citation Western Michigan University. (2017). ...

The Field Tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG) and Views About Science Survey (VASS)
× The Field Tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG) and Views About Science Survey (VASS) The VASS is designed to survey student views about knowing and learning science, and to assess the relation of these ...

Research based methods of instructional reform
Research based methods of instructional reform A list of measures of instructional reform from the Stains research group, including classroom observation protocol, self-report surveys, and classroom artifacts. ...

SERU (Student Experience in the Research University)
SERU (Student Experience in the Research University) The Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) survey's goal is to provide data to promote institutional self-improvement by serving research, ...

E-CLASS Survey
× E-CLASS Survey The Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey for Experimental Physics assesses student views about habits of mind about experimental science. Suggested Citation Lewandowski Group. ...