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The Teacher Education Program Assessment (TEPA) Tool
This informational web page presents the Teacher Education Program Assessment (TEPA) Tool developed by APLU, offering an overview and access to a report on evaluating innovation and quality in teacher preparation programs, targeting higher education professionals engaged in systemic STEM education reform.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Professional Development:Preparing Future Teachers, Course Evaluation, Institutional Systems:Evaluating Teaching, Degree Program Development

Wider PERSIST at Boise State
A resource page detailing Boise State University's WIDER PERSIST program, which supports STEM faculty in adopting evidence-based instructional and assessment practices through funding, professional development, and institutional change initiatives.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Professional Development:Curriculum Development, Course Evaluation, Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Evaluating Teaching, Strategic Planning

Navigating institutional change for student success in STEM
This is a resource page from the Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN) offering a journal article citation on strategies for institutional change to improve student success in STEM, targeting change leaders, faculty, and administrators engaged in systemic reform, professional development, curriculum design, and assessment in higher education.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders, Assessment
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development:Curriculum Development, Course Evaluation, Institutional Systems:Evaluating Teaching

Learning Spaces Toolkit
The Learning Spaces Toolkit is a web resource page offering guidance for assessing and designing technology-rich informal learning spaces in higher education, featuring a needs assessment protocol to evaluate space effectiveness, support institutional change, and enhance student learning outcomes through evidence-based design practices.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment
Resource Type: Toolkit
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Technological Infrastructure, Supporting Students:Academic Support, Outreach

The Best of Both Worlds: Building on the COPUS and RTOP Observation Protocols to Easily and Reliably Measure Various Levels of Reformed Instructional Practice
A scholarly resource page presenting a journal article that integrates the COPUS and RTOP observation protocols through cluster analysis to create 10 instructional profiles for reliably measuring reformed teaching practices in STEM higher education.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development, Institutional Systems:Evaluating Teaching

Tools for Evidence-based Action (TEA)
A resource page for the Tools for Evidence-based Action (TEA) community that promotes evidence-based teaching in higher education through shared technologies like the Ribbon Tool for visualizing student academic pathways and the GORP classroom observation platform, offering implementation guidance, protocols, and citation information.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Professional Development:Curriculum Development, Institutional Systems:Evaluating Teaching, Technological Infrastructure