The Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC) Guide: Planning for Assessing 21st Century Spaces for 21st Century Learners
The Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC) Guide: Planning for Assessing 21st Century Spaces for 21st Century Learners This guide, developed by a working group convened by the LSC, is a template for measuring return ...

STEM education centers: A national discussion
STEM education centers: A national discussion Discusses the national STEM Education Center coalition and common challenges of local campus STEM centers. Suggested Citation Riordan, D. G. (2014). STEM Education ...

Achieving Systemic Change; a sourcebook for Advancing and Funding STEM Education
Achieving Systemic Change; a sourcebook for Advancing and Funding STEM Education The sourcebook from the AACU 2014 workshop discusses how best to effect systemic change in undergraduate STEM, including the ...

Describing & Measuring Undergraduate STEM Teaching Practices
Describing & Measuring Undergraduate STEM Teaching Practices Describes practices for measurement of teaching excellence in STEM. Suggested Citation American Association for the Advancement of Science. (2012, ...

Increase the Impact
Increase the Impact Website and guidebook providing guidance to educational innovators for strategies for sharing and disseminating their work in a way that's likely to engage and affect faculty, such as ...

New Faculty Workshop in Physics
New Faculty Workshop in Physics Led by disciplinary societies, this 20+ year professional development program has been shown to have a substantial impact on faculty awareness of, and initial use of, active ...

Communities of Transformation and their work scaling STEM reform
Communities of Transformation and their work scaling STEM reform A. Kezar and S. Gehrke, Pullias Center for Higher Education. A mixed-methods study of four STEM communities (BioQUEST, PKAL, POGIL and SENCER) to ...

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

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.

Improving postsecondary STEM education: Strategies for successful collaboration and brokering across disciplinary paradigms
× Improving postsecondary STEM education: Strategies for successful collaboration and brokering across disciplinary paradigms This paper describes five strategies which STEM faculty can use to build and ...