American Evaluation Association
American Evaluation Association Network and professional society for evaluators, including ability to find evaluators, and many resources for performing evaluation and communicating results to stakeholders. ...

What advice about the use of measurement would you give to a department chair?
Pamela Brown CUNY New York City College of Technology Pamela Brown
I was invited to participate in the Accelerating Systematic Change Network (ASCN) Workshop, held at the HHMI in the summer of 2016 and have since continued collaborating with Working Group 4, with the goal of shedding light on using data to drive change – identifying, explicating and disseminating sources of information. I have served as the Associate Provost at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, a minority serving, public, urban college, for the last 5 years, after having served as the Dean of Arts and Sciences for 6 years. Following are my responses to the guiding questions forwarded by the working group's leadership.

Essential Questions & Data Sources for Continuous Improvement of Undergraduate STEM Teaching and Learning
Essential Questions & Data Sources for Continuous Improvement of Undergraduate STEM Teaching and Learning This resource complements AAU's Framework for Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Teaching and ...

Shaping the Future of Higher Education: Practical, Community-Driven Initiatives to Improve Academic Climate
In this Editorial, we present the history and details of a collaborative effort to improve the academic climate of the Department of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley.

Grassroots Efforts To Quantify and Improve the Academic Climate of an R1 STEM Department: Using Evidence-Based Discussions To Foster Community
Here, we present the outcomes of a graduate-student-led initiative that sought to assess the issues affecting inclusivity, diversity, and wellness within the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. We report how the results of a department-tailored academic climate survey were used to develop a method to foster open, productive discussion among graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty.

Improving the Academic Climate of an R1 STEM Department: Quantified Positive Shifts in Perception
This study confirms the positive outcomes of having a practical, sustainable, and data-driven framework for affecting change within a graduate community.

America's Overlooked Engineers: Community Colleges and Diversity in Engineering Education
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Constraints and opportunities for practitioner agency in STEM programs in Hispanic serving community colleges
Constraints and opportunities for practitioner agency in STEM programs in Hispanic serving community colleges Explores how community colleges feed into the STEM pipeline, and what affects student success and ...

Cooperative Learning resources
Cooperative Learning resources Cover a range of cooperative group work in engineering. Suggested Citation Smith, K.A. (n.d.) RESOURCES: Books, Articles, Presentations and Workshop. Retrieved from ...

Undergrad chemistry education: A workshop summary
Undergrad chemistry education: A workshop summary Summary of a workshop convened in May 2013 by the Chemical Science Roundtable of the National Research Council to explore the current state of undergraduate ...