Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate STEM Education: CAUSE for Transformation to Evidence-based Teaching Practices
Mary Pat Wenderoth, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus; Jennifer Doherty, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus; Deborah Wiegand, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus
We have created the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate STEM Education (CAUSE) to implement evidence-based teaching in STEM departments at Univeristy of Washington. The goal of CAUSE is to transform the ...

Guided by Evidence: Changing the Disciplinary Culture of Teaching and Learning
Kaci Thompson, University of Maryland-College Park; Michelle Bertke, University of Maryland-College Park; Todd Cooke, University of Maryland-College Park; Joelle Presson, University of Maryland-College Park; Francisca Saavedra, University of Maryland-College Park; Patrick Sheehan, University of Maryland-College Park; Gili Marbach-Ad, University of Maryland-College Park
Students learn better when they are actively engaged in constructing knowledge, but teaching approaches that foster student engagement are far from widespread in undergraduate STEM classrooms. To remedy this, the ...