Using Force Field Analysis to Advance STEM Education Reform
Lucas Hill, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Mark Graham, Yale University; Judy Milton, University of Georgia
Organizational theorists and change practitioners have advanced many useful tools relevant to the evaluation of complex, often multi-institutional, higher education STEM reform initiatives. Evaluators often engage ...

A systematic review of change theory in STEM higher educational change efforts
Tessa C Andrews, University of Georgia; Daniel Reinholz, San Diego State University
STEM educational change projects are increasingly drawing on change theory to consider how and why change occurs. Change theory is a framework of ideas, supported by evidence, that explains some aspect of how or ...

Creating culturally responsive STEM learning environments through community building at an HSI
Jiwoo An, Texas State University-San Marcos; Mavreen Rose Tuvilla, Texas State University-San Marcos
As a Hispanic Serving University (HSI), Texas State University is working towards not only to graduate students but also to provide culturally enhancing educational experiences to minoritized learners. Our STEM ...

Lessons Learned: Successes and Challenges of Implementing a Systems Model for Improving Student Success & Student Retention
Judy Awong-Taylor, Georgia Gwinnett College; Allison D'Costa, Georgia Gwinnett College; Clay Runck, Georgia Gwinnett College; Tirza Leader, Georgia Gwinnett College; David Pursell, Georgia Gwinnett College; Cindy Achat-Mendes, Georgia Gwinnett College; Chantelle Anfuso, Georgia Gwinnett College; Nathan W. Moon, Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
The School of Science and Technology at Georgia Gwinnett College attracts a highly diverse student population, many from groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM education. However, there is disparity in ...

An Instructional-Teams Project for supporting instructional reform
Susan Hester, The University of Arizona; Karie Lattimore, The University of Arizona; Lisa Rezende, The University of Arizona; Lisa Elfring, The University of Arizona
The Instructional-Teams Project (I-TP) at the University of Arizona is an NSF-funded effort (DUE-1626531) that supports high-quality active-learning instruction in large-enrollment STEM courses through building ...

Connecting Project Principles and a Theory of Change to Practice: Departmental Action Teams
Sarah Wise, University of Colorado at Boulder; Courtney Ngai, Colorado State University; Joel Corbo, University of Colorado at Boulder
Every change effort needs a solid foundation in order to achieve its desired impacts. We have found that project principles and a Theory of Change (TOC) provide such a foundation for the Departmental Action Team ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...