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How Does Your Professional Organization Lead Positive Change?
Pamela Brown, CUNY New York City College of Technology
We are creating resources for the ASCN Working Group 4: Demonstrating Impact and others, interested in higher education systemic change efforts, by soliciting responses to important questions. This month's question is related to professional organizations. We are interested to learn about activities different professional organizations in STEM disciplines are using to accelerate change. Professional organizations/societies may have the authority, relationships and access to data to implement positive changes in specific disciplines. One example of an organization actively engaged with this mission is the Research Advisory Group of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences. The report "The Role of Scientific Societies in STEM Faculty Workshops" recommended by Charles Henderson in his contribution is a great resource that provides insights into faculty professional development workshops across STEM disciplines. The December/January question: How does your professional organization try to lead positive change? What changes have your professional organization led or you would like to see them lead?

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders, Assessment
Resource Type: Blog Post
Program Components: Outreach:Policy Change

How Do We Convince Administrators that Program Assessment is Worth the Effort?
Archie Holmes, University of Virginia-Main Campus
In November ASCN Working Group 4: Demonstrating Impact leaders selected a question submitted by the registrants for the ASCN Webinar titled "Launching and Leading Change in STEM Education" - Effective program assessment is hard. How do we convince administrators that it is worth the effort? We thought this question would be of interest to the larger higher education community and asked members of working group 4 to respond to this question. Share below in the comment section how you are addressing this question at your institution, or to engage in a discussion. In addition, if there are any questions you would like us to address in the coming months, please share them here or email them to Inese, the ASCN Project Manager. Effective program assessment is hard. How do we convince administrators that it is worth the effort?

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment
Resource Type: Blog Post
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Degree Program Development

STEM Evaluation Repository of AEA
STEM Evaluation Repository of AEA Resource list of STEM Evaluation metrics from the American Evaluation Association STEM topical group. Not well populated at this time but could be a growing resource. Add a ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Professional Development

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. ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment
Resource Type: Website
Program Components: Professional Development:Student Assessment

Learning from Evaluation of Effective Teaching Event: Perspectives on Aligning Incentives
Christine Broussard, University of La Verne; Rachel Renbarger, Western Michigan University
At the end of August, three ASCN working groups came together to put on an event called, "Evaluation of effective and inclusive teaching: How can teaching and learning center professionals be involved in change for social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion?" (We will refer to social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion as JEDI for ease throughout this post.) We heard from working group leaders Christine Broussard, Kadian Callahan, and Holly Cho, and a special guest, Susan Elrod. We were fortunate to have 100 participants join us for the session as well, who represented 77 different institutions. The purpose of this blog post is to give brief highlights regarding what we learned from this event. We recommend that if the topic and event interests you, please watch the recording and access the resources on the event page.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment, Equity and Inclusion
Resource Type: Blog Post
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Evaluating Teaching, Strategic Planning

Progress Toward Achieving Systemic Change: A Five-Year Status Report on the AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative
Progress Toward Achieving Systemic Change: A Five-Year Status Report on the AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative This status report on the AAU Undergraduate STEM Initiative draws from instructor surveys, ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment, Faculty Evaluation
Resource Type: Report

Career Framework for University Teaching: Background and Overview
Career Framework for University Teaching: Background and Overview This report provides a template for universities to guide and measure faculty members' teaching successes and achievements, with the goal of ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment, Faculty Evaluation
Resource Type: Report

A Better Way to Evaluate Undergraduate Teaching
A Better Way to Evaluate Undergraduate Teaching In this article, the author considers current methods of evaluating teaching at research universities and proposes a new method for evaluation based on teaching ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment, Faculty Evaluation
Resource Type: Journal Article

Reflections on the SMTI/ASCN Workshop on Diversity and Inclusion
Inese Berzina-Pitcher Western Michigan University Inese Berzina-Pitcher
Last month in partnership with the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) we organized SMTI/ASCN Workshop on Diversity and Inclusion. × One of the major objectives of the workshop was to advance a dialog on diversity and inclusion in undergraduate STEM education between practitioners transforming institutions and researchers who are studying systemic change at higher education institutions. The workshop featured case studies of institutions that are making progress on increasing diversity and inclusion on their campuses. These case studies were used to stimulate small group discussion amongst all participants on what is working or not on their campuses. In addition, small group discussion by ASCN working groups also were offered. With a great interest we read reflections offered by the workshop participants and in turn

Change Topics (Working Groups): Guiding Theories, Change Leaders, Assessment, Communication, Policy, Costs and Benefits, Equity and Inclusion
Resource Type: Blog Post

Faculty Development and Student Learning
Faculty Development and Student Learning Condon, Iverson, Manduca et al. reports the results of a multi-year study undertaken by faculty at Carleton College and Washington State University to assess how ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment
Resource Type: Book
Program Components: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training, Outreach:Presentations/Talks