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

Change Topics (Working Groups): Communication, Assessment
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training, Student Assessment

AAU Framework for systemic change in undergraduate STEM teaching and learning
AAU Framework for systemic change in undergraduate STEM teaching and learning Outlines framework developed by AAU to guide institutional commitment to teaching and learning, including cultural change, scaffolding, ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Faculty Evaluation, Guiding Theories
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Supporting Students, Professional Development

What Is the Potential for Applying Cost-Utility Analysis to Facilitate Evidence-Based Decision Making in Schools?
Fiona Hollands; Yilin Pan; Maya Escueta
The authors investigated the feasibility of applying a decision-making framework based on cost-utility analysis to facilitate decision-making. A key challenge was guiding decision makers to find suitable evidence.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning

Curators and sojourners in learning networks: Practices for transformation
× Curators and sojourners in learning networks: Practices for transformation In this article Risien provides a framework for examining structures, roles and practices of networks, and particularly of roles ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Policy Change, Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring

Misalignments: Challenges in Cultivating Science Faculty with Education Specialties in Your Department
Misalignments: Challenges in Cultivating Science Faculty with Education Specialties in Your Department This paper describes the role and potential contributions of science faculty with education specialties within ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development:Curriculum Development, Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Evaluating Teaching, Outreach:Policy Change, Professional Development:Pedagogical Training, Institutional Systems:Interdepartmental Collaboration, Strategic Planning

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.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders, Guiding Theories, Assessment, Equity and Inclusion
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Professional Development:Diversity/Inclusion

Change as a Scholarly Act: Higher Education Research Transfer to Practice
× Change as a Scholarly Act: Higher Education Research Transfer to Practice This article offers a university president's perspective on research pathways higher education researchers ought to pursue to ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Policy Change, Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Outreach:Inter-Institutional Collaboration

Aligning Practice to Policies: Changing the Culture to Recognize and Reward Teaching at Research Universities
This is an article about how to align University practices with policies. It offers three examples of how institutions have begun projects to achieve this. It overlaps with the TEval resources, as two of the examples are TEval participants.Abstract: "Recent calls for improvement in undergraduate education within STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines are hampered by the methods used to evaluate teaching effectiveness. Faculty members at research universities are commonly assessed and promoted mainly on the basis of research success. To improve the quality of undergraduate teaching across all disciplines, not only STEM fields, requires creating an environment wherein continuous improvement of teaching is valued, assessed, and rewarded at various stages of a faculty member's career. This requires consistent application of policies that reflect well-established best practices for evaluating teaching at the department, college, and university levels. Evidence shows most teaching evaluation practices do not reflect stated policies, even when the policies specifically espouse teaching as a value. Thus, alignment of practice to policy is a major barrier to establishing a culture in which teaching is valued. Situated in the context of current national efforts to improve undergraduate STEM education, including the Association of American Universities Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative, this essay discusses four guiding principles for aligning practice with stated priorities in formal policies: 1) enhancing the role of deans and chairs; 2) effectively using the hiring process; 3) improving communication; and 4) improving the understanding of teaching as a scholarly activity. In addition, three specific examples of efforts to improve the practice of evaluating teaching are presented as examples: 1) Three Bucket Model of merit review at the University of California, Irvine; (2) Evaluation of Teaching Rubric, University of Kansas; and (3) Teaching Quality Framework, University of Colorado, Boulder. These examples provide flexible criteria to holistically evaluate and improve the quality of teaching across the diverse institutions comprising modern higher education."

Change Topics (Working Groups): Faculty Evaluation
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Evaluating Teaching, Incentive/Reward Systems, Professional Development:Course Evaluation

Improving Learning and Reducing Costs: Fifteen Years of Course Redesign
Carol A. Twigg

Change Topics (Working Groups): Costs and Benefits
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Professional Development:Curriculum Development

Accelerating change: The power of faculty change agents to promote diversity and inclusive teaching practices
R. Heather Macdonald, College of William and Mary; Rachel Beane, Bowdoin College; Eric Baer, Highline College; Pamela Eddy, College of William and Mary; Norlene Emerson, University of Wisconsin-Richland; Jan Hodder; University of Oregon; Ellen Iverson, Carleton College; John McDaris, Carleton College; Kristin O'Connell, Carleton College; Carol Ormand, Carleton College
This article about preparing faculty to act as change agents to support diversity and inclusion is applicable to both two-year colleges and a larger audience.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Incentive/Reward Systems, Professional Development:Diversity/Inclusion