Session VIII
Session VIII Thursday 1:10 pm â 1:35 pm PT / 2:10 pm â 2:35 pm MT / 3:10 pm â 3:35 pm CT / 4:10 pm â 4:35 pm ET Online Concurrent Session Elevating Student ...

Elevating Student Experience to Transform STEM Education
Samantha Levine, APLU; Laurel Hartley, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center; Sushilla Knottenbelt, University of New Mexico-Main Campus
Over a decade of research on learning mindsets – such as belonging, growth mindset, and purpose – demonstrates that positive experiences of community, belonging, and academic support on campus and in the ...

Achieving sustained change through multi-institutional collaboration
Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, University of Kansas Main Campus; George Rehrey, Indiana University-Bloomington; Lorne Whitehead, University of British Columbia
ASCN is an established lever for engaging faculty, administrators, and policy makers in careful thinking about improvement in undergraduate teaching and learning, providing opportunities to explore and analyze ...

Presentations: Session V
Presentations: Session V Thursday 9:30 am â 9:55 am PT / 10:30 am â 10:55 am MT / 11:30 am â 11:55 am CT / 12:30 pm â 12:55 pm ET Online Concurrent Session A ...

Creating and Supporting Systemic Change: Scaffolding Undergraduate Research as a Vehicle for Equitable Transformation
Jillian Kinzie, Indiana University-Bloomington; Elizabeth Ambos, Consultant; Mitchell Malachowski, University of San Diego; Jeffrey Osborn, The College of New Jersey; Lindsay Currie, Council on Undergraduate Research
The involvement of undergraduate students in research is a proven and powerful pedagogy due to the many benefits gained in their cognitive, intellectual, professional, and personal growth realms. Integrating ...

Presentations: Session VI
Presentations: Session VI Thursday 10:05 am â 10:30 am PT / 11:05 am â 11:30 am MT / 12:05 pm â 12:30 pm CT / 1:05 pm â 1:30 pm ET Online Concurrent Session ...

The Role of Course-Based Communities of Transformation in Moving Toward Active Learning: What We Learned about Supporting Change During the Pivot to Online Learning
Jill Nelson, George Mason University; Jessica Rosenberg, George Mason University; Robert Sachs, George Mason University
Student engagement in active learning has been shown to improve retention and understanding, but effecting sustained change in STEM instruction has proven challenging, particularly in large courses. In this ...

Defining a T1 University
Christine Cutucache, University of Nebraska at Omaha; Stephanie Salomone, University of Portland; Eric Anctil, University of Portland; Heather Dillon, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus; Carolyn James, University of Portland; Valerie Peterson, University of Portland; Tara Prestholdt, University of Portland
Institutions of higher education are experiencing a paradigm shift. Research activity has long been seen as separate from teaching and of greater value to the institution's prestige and impact. We take the ...

Organization-focused Networks as Levers for Change: A Research-Based Theoretical Framework to Conceptualize their Work
Ann Austin, Michigan State University; Susan Singer, Rollins College; Vicki Baker, Michigan State University; Adam Grimm, Michigan State University; Levi B Shanks, Michigan State University; Mathew Devereaux, Michigan State University
Networks are a powerful lever for advancing improvements in STEM education by leveraging sustained collaboration focused on a common goal. This proposed workshop will provide an opportunity for ASCN attendees to ...

Presentations: Session VII
Presentations: Session VII Thursday 12:40 pm â 1:05 pm PT / 1:40 pm â 2:05 pm MT / 2:40 pm â 3:05 pm CT / 3:40 pm â 4:05 pm ET Online Concurrent Session ...

When Seeing is Believing: Generalizability and Decision Studies for Observational Data in Evaluation and Research on Teaching
Tim Weston, University of Colorado at Boulder; Charles Hayward, University of Colorado at Boulder; Sandra Laursen, University of Colorado at Boulder
Structured classroom observations are widely used in research and evaluation of STEM classrooms to characterize teaching and learning activities. Because conducting observations is typically resource intensive, it ...

Pooling Knowledge for Rapid Response: Covid-19 Prompted a Network of Research Universities to Share Best Practices for Assessing Student Learning Online
Joshua Potter, University of Kansas Main Campus; Linda Slakey, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Doug James, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The sudden and wholesale shift in March 2020 away from brick-and-mortar classrooms and toward hybrid and online teaching due to the pandemic was experienced by most faculty as a crisis moment. For many faculty ...

How Department Context and Institutional Factors Shape Undergraduate STEM Education Reform
Emily Miller, Association of American Universities; Tara King, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Mary Sorcinelli, University of Massachusetts Amherst
In this presentation, we will report on emergent findings from Leveraging the AAU STEM Education Initiative, a study aimed at examining the institutional landscape in which innovations to undergraduate STEM ...

The (STEM)2 Network: A Multi-Institution, Multidisciplinary Approach to Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education
Jessica Santangelo, Hofstra University; Alison Hyslop, St. John's University-New York
Recognizing that the systemic transformation of STEM higher education is challenging, the (STEM)2 Network directly addresses those challenges by bridging disciplinary and institutional silos, and leveraging the ...

Getting STEM FIT! STEM-Forum for Inclusive Teaching as a model for broad dissemination of evidence-based inclusive teaching practices
Kimberly Mulligan, California State University-Sacramento; Kelly McDonald, California State University-Sacramento
Undergraduate STEM disciplines have notoriously large equity gaps and suffer from disproportionate rates of attrition of systemically minoritized groups. Evidence-based inclusive teaching practices can both ...

University systems in the time of punctuated equilibrium: Understanding adaptations to rapid and unpredictable change
Erika Offerdahl, Washington State University- Pullman; Mary Pilgrim, San Diego State University; Emily Walter, California State University-Fresno; Katherine Ryker, University of South Carolina-Columbia
The COVID-19 global pandemic presented unanticipated challenges for undergraduate education. Early in the pandemic, many institutions of higher education were left scrambling as they tried to maintain academic ...

Networking STEM Initiatives to Enhance (NSITE) Adoption of Evidence-based Practices
Michelle Withers, Binghamton University; Erin Baumgartner, Western Oregon University; Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Oregon State University; Xinnian Chen, University of Connecticut; Mark Graham, Yale University; Deb Pires, University of California-Los Angeles
Multiple initiatives have arisen to address the disconnect between theory and practice in post-secondary STEM education. While these initiatives share a common mission of making STEM education more effective and ...

It's a START: Supporting Intergenerational Department Change Teams to Build Anti-racist Courses and Curricula
Mary Wright, Brown University; Monica Linden, Brown University; Patricia Sobral, Brown University; James Valles, Brown University; Stacey Lawrence, Brown University; Eric Kaldor, Brown University
Like many institutions of higher education, Brown University has established an institutional imperative to address diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) on many levels, and like many centers for teaching and ...

Presentations: Session XI
Presentations: Session XI Friday 11:30 am â 11:55 am PT / 12:30 pm â 12:55 pm MT / 1:30 pm â 1:55 pm CT / 2:30 pm â 2:55 pm ET Online Concurrent Session Mobile ...

Science Education as Civic Education: The Future of STEM Learning
Eliza Jane Reilly, National Center for Science and Civic Engagement; Davida Smyth, The New School; Eliza J. Reilly, National Center for Science and Civic Engagement
Spurred by twin crises of COVID-19 and climate change, and an uncertain employment horizon, the goals for STEM education have shifted from developing a STEM capable workforce to broader and more durable ...

Self-Evaluation Tools for Centers: Making Key Contributions to Undergraduate STEM Education
Deborah Carlisle, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Gabriela Weaver, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Centers are key institutional resources. In their mid-level support roles, centers lead and facilitate transformative campus efforts that enhance organizational learning and performance. Our research has explored ...

Mobile Summer Institutes: An Institution-based Iteration of the Summer Institutes on Scientific Teaching that Targets Both Individual and Institutional Transformation.
Michelle Withers, Binghamton University; Marguerite Brickman, University of Georgia; Xinnian Chen, University of Connecticut; Robert Bills, Binghamton University; Mark Graham, Yale University; Joseph Ankrom, Binghamton University; Elias Miller, SUNY at Binghamton
While research has demonstrated the benefits of active learning on student success and reduction of performance gaps for historically excluded groups, the majority of post-secondary STEM educators still rely ...

Presentations: Session IX
Presentations: Session IX Friday 10:20 am â 10:45 am PT / 11:20 am â 11:45 am MT / 12:20 pm â 12:45 pm CT / 1:20 pm â 1:45 pm ET Online Concurrent Session ...

Transforming (Inter)Institutional STEM Infrastructures: Lessons from the SEISMIC Project on Designing for Equity and Inclusion at Scale
James Hammond, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Sara Brownell, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus; Carson Byrd, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Susan Cheng, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Nita Kedharnath, Henry Ford Community College; Timothy McKay, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Where equity and inclusion are concerned, STEM higher education remains in need of systemic reform and transformational change—within and across institutions. In this presentation, we discuss how promoting ...

Presentations: Session X
Presentations: Session X Friday 10:55 am â 11:20 am PT / 11:55 am â 12:20 pm MT / 12:55 pm â 1:20 pm CT / 1:55 pm â 2:20 pm ET Online Concurrent Session ...