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Improving opportunities for student learning in large enrollment undergraduate STEM courses through the development of instructional team members that focus independently on classroom management and student thinking
Jonathan Cox, The University of Arizona
While overwhelming evidence in support of active learning has propelled many undergraduate courses toward transformation, instructors often encounter implementation challenges in large enrollment introductory STEM ...

Conference Day: April 4, 2019
Session Type: Poster Presentation
Themes: Evidence-based practice, Faculty development, Department-level change
Time: 2:45pm - 3:2:45pm - 3:30pm

Understanding and Enacting Math Department Change: An Approach in Four Frames
Naneh Apkarian, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
This poster reports on the analysis of a longitudinal study of change in a university mathematics department which revitalized and improved their precalculus/calculus program by implementing a series of strategies, ...

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

Promoting and Sustaining Inclusivity Through (Minor) Changes In Undergraduate Science Assessment
Tommy Mayberry, University of Guelph; Sarah Ruffell, University of Pittsburgh-Bradford
Incorporating inclusivity within post-secondary classrooms is an institutional requirement of higher education. This project raises student awareness of the need for inclusivity in the classroom as well as in their ...

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

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

Open Educational Resources: How to rethink the textbook from multiple perspectives
James morris, Purdue University-Main Campus
This poster will outline the value of Open Educational Resources (OER), while focusing on the strategies available for implementation in Higher Education. Strategies will emphasize approaches to take from an ...

Conference Day: April 4, 2019
Session Type: Poster Presentation
Themes: Evidence-based practice, Student-focused, Faculty development
Time: 2:45pm - 3:2:45pm - 3:30pm

Enrichment of a high-impact practice to promote STEM learning and build transferable skills in undergraduate students: Peer Supplemental Instruction at Georgia Gwinnett College
Cindy Achat-Mendes, Georgia Gwinnett College; Chantelle Anfuso, Georgia Gwinnett College; Judy Awong-Taylor, Georgia Gwinnett College; Benjamin Shepler, Georgia Gwinnett College; Sonal Dekhane, Georgia Gwinnett College; Katherine Pinzon, Georgia Gwinnett College; Jennifer Hurst- Kennedy, Georgia Gwinnett College; Cynthia Johnson, Georgia Gwinnett College; Jamye Curry, Georgia Gwinnett College; Elizabeth Sudduth, Georgia Gwinnett College; Rashad Simmons, Georgia Gwinnett College
Georgia Gwinnett College, a 4-year USG institution, has rapidly grown since 2006 to accommodate over 12,000 students. Our student population is ethnically diverse with 32% African American, 31% Caucasian, 21% ...

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

Leading departmentally-based change initiatives: The Science Education Initiative Handbook
Stephanie Chasteen, University of Colorado at Boulder
Educational change efforts focused at the department level can be particularly powerful. Positive outcomes, however, are not automatic. This poster will share some of the big lessons-learned from the Science ...

Conference Day: April 4, 2019
Session Type: Poster Presentation
Themes: Change leadership (ASCN WG 3), DBER, Department-level change
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

Reforming core education in the Clark Honors College: Scaffolding liberal arts understanding in freshman and sophomore honors students
Samantha Hopkins, University of Oregon; Rebecca Lindner, University of Oregon; David Frank, University of Oregon; Daphne Gallagher, University of Oregon; Melissa Graboyes, University of Oregon; Gabriel Paquette, University of Oregon; Carol Paty, University of Oregon
The Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon teaches a liberal arts curriculum within the broader research university. During our external review, we realized that our core education curriculum needed ...

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

QUBES: An education gateway for professional development, OER sharing, and project support
Sam Donovan, BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium; Kristin Jenkins, BioQUEST; Jeremy Wojdak, Radford University
The Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education & Synthesis (QUBES; qubeshub.org) project has adopted a "scientific gateways" model to accelerate undergraduate biology education reform. As such, ...

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