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Building a better SET: An "outside-in" approach to developing and implementing improved student evaluations of teaching
Jessica Keating, University of Colorado at Boulder; Noah Finkelstein, University of Colorado at Boulder
Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are a contentious, but ubiquitous, tool in teaching assessment. Wide-ranging stakeholders--from faculty assemblies to national organizing bodies to the courts--have recently ...

Conference Day: April 4, 2019
Session Type: Poster Presentation
Themes: Assessment and evaluation, Measuring the impacts of change (ASCN WG 4), Institutional-level change
Time: 2:45pm - 3:2:45pm - 3:30pm

The Sky is the Limit: A Learning Community for Undeclared Students--A Sustainable Investment in Student Success and Retention
Stacey Barnes, Iowa State University; Jenifer N. Saldanha, Michigan State University; MaKayla B. Schroeder, Minnesota State University Moorhead; Andrew J. Sage, Lawrence University; Jo Anne Powell-Coffman, Iowa State University; Craig Ogilvie, Iowa State University; Clark Coffman, Iowa State University
Student learning communities have proven to be a consistently powerful strategy for promoting student success. At Iowa State University, approximately 78% of freshmen belong to learning communities, and this ...

Conference Day: April 4, 2019
Session Type: Poster Presentation
Themes: Student-focused, Institutional-level change
Time: 2:45pm - 3:2:45pm - 3:30pm

Inclusive Learning and Teaching in Undergraduate STEM Instruction
Bennett Goldberg, Northwestern University; Sarah Hokanson, Boston University; Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Susanna Calkins, Northwestern University; Don Gillian-Daniel, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Regina Frey & Alessandra York, Washington University in St. Louis; Anna Conway & Sally Wilson, Des Moines Area Community College; Judy Milton, University of Georgia
Our program will engage current and future STEM faculty in learning to teach more inclusively. Inclusive teaching reduces disparities around gender and among traditionally underrepresented minorities, as well as ...

Conference Day: April 4, 2019
Session Type: Poster Presentation
Themes: Equity and inclusion (ASCN WG 5), Guiding theories of change (ASCN WG 1), Faculty development
Time: 2:45pm - 3:2:45pm - 3:30pm

Thriving and surviving as non-traditional students: A Qualitative Study
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Background: Historically, the National Center for Education Statistics defined "nontraditional students" as older students who do not receive bachelor's degrees prior to age 25 because that age gap ...

Conference Day: April 4, 2019
Session Type: Poster Presentation
Themes: Equity and inclusion (ASCN WG 5), Student-focused, Institutional-level change
Time: 2:45pm - 3:2:45pm - 3:30pm

Exploring Teaching Behaviors of Faculty by Context: An Analysis of Organizational Climate
Ivan Ceballos Madrigal, California State University-Fresno; Emily Walter, California State University-Fresno
Most faculty have knowledge of evidence-based instructional practices and access to the resources to carry them out. Despite this, efforts to transform postsecondary instruction have had only modest success (e.g. ...

Conference Day: April 4, 2019
Session Type: Poster Presentation
Themes: Guiding theories of change (ASCN WG 1), Evidence-based practice, Institutional-level change
Time: 2:45pm - 3:2:45pm - 3:30pm

Assessing the Diffusion of Guided-Inquiry Physical Chemistry Laboratory Experiments Through Faculty Workshops
Dilhara Liyanage, Virginia Commonwealth University
The POGIL-PCL Project has implemented the principles of Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) to improve student learning in the physical chemistry laboratory (PCL) course. Inquiry-driven physical ...

Conference Day: April 4, 2019
Session Type: Poster Presentation
Themes: Evidence-based practice, Measuring the impacts of change (ASCN WG 4), Faculty development
Time: 2:45pm - 3:2:45pm - 3:30pm

Transforming STEM gateway courses: or How we learned to stop worrying about just one approach and love the different pathways
Shanna Shaked, University of California-Los Angeles
One of the main goals of UCLA's Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences is to broaden student success in STEM. Working with institutional research folks, we identified the persistence ...

Conference Day: April 4, 2019
Session Type: Oral Presentation
Themes: Guiding theories of change (ASCN WG 1), Student-focused, New frameworks and approaches to change, Faculty development, Institutional-level change
Time: 3:30pm - 5:00pm:3:30pm - 4:3:30pm - 4:00pm

Transforming STEM Education through Scaffolded Curricula
Mitchell Malachowski, University of San Diego; Jeffrey Osborn, The College of New Jersey
The involvement of undergraduate students in collaborative research with faculty is a proven and powerful pedagogy in view of the many educational benefits gained by students related to their cognitive, ...

Conference Day: April 4, 2019
Session Type: Oral Presentation
Themes: Guiding theories of change (ASCN WG 1), Student-focused, New frameworks and approaches to change, Department-level change
Time: 3:30pm - 5:00pm:3:30pm - 4:3:30pm - 4:00pm

A Framework for Integrated Competency-Based Education
Lisa Bosman, Purdue University-Main Campus; Prof. Abrar Hammoud, Purdue University-Main Campus
Over the past several years, competency-based education has been championed and implemented in vocational education, which prepares individuals for work in a variety of fields such as specialized trades, crafts, ...

Conference Day: April 4, 2019
Session Type: Oral Presentation
Themes: Evidence-based practice, Student-focused
Time: 3:30pm - 5:00pm:3:30pm - 4:3:30pm - 4:00pm

Building and Facilitating a Multi-Institutional Collaboration to Support Systemic Change: Insights from the Next Generation of STEM Teacher Preparation Programs in Washington State
Ed Geary, Western Washington University; Ann McMahon; Roxane Ronca, Western Washington University
Washington State is an NGSS and CCSS adoption state. Consequently, every Science and Mathematics Teacher Preparation program needs to make changes to prepare future teachers to be NGSS and/or CCSS ready when they ...

Conference Day: April 4, 2019
Session Type: Thematic Symposium
Themes: Costs and benefits of change (ASCN WG 2), Measuring the impacts of change (ASCN WG 4), Faculty development, Institutional-level change
Time: 3:30pm - 5:3:30pm - 5:00pm