Presentations: Session A
Presentations: Session A Monday 1:15pm - 2:15pm Scandinavian 2 Presentation Factors Associated with STEM Students' Sense of Belonging Gili Marbach-Ad, University of ...

Using Idea Flow Theory to Understand Levers for Change in 2- to 4-year STEM Transfer Between Wisconsin Public Institutions
Janet Branchaw, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Amanda Butz, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Kevin Mirus, Madison Area Technical College
The University of Wisconsin - Madison's HHMI Inclusive Excellence project aims to increase the number and diversity of students graduating with STEM bachelor's degrees in the state of Wisconsin by ...

Back to the Future: Recovering the Civic Purpose of Science Education
Eliza J. Reilly, National Center for Science and Civic Engagement
Since the assault on the US Capitol there is no longer any question that US democracy is in crisis. Racial, economic, social, and political divisions are growing. Media manipulation, gerrymandering, voter ...

Equity Audits as a Change Management Tool
Kimberly LeChasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kris Wobbe, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Diversity trainings have been critiqued as inadequate for shifting educational practice, despite their ubiquitous presence (Bezrukova, Spell, Perry, & Jehn, 2016). Equity audits can be a powerful alternative. ...

Implications for Professional Development Based on Physics Faculty's Reflective Writings
Haleigh Machost, University of Virginia; Jherian K. Mitchell-Jones, University of Virginia-Main Campus; Brandon J. Yik, University of Virginia; Marilyne Stains, University of Virginia
The development of reflective practitioners has been identified as one of four dominant change strategies in the STEM education literature. Reflective writings, wherein instructors document their thoughts, actions, ...

Creating a Spacious Capacity to Support Institutional Change
Kris Wobbe, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kimberly LeChasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Capacity within higher education institutions is held in its people. Institutional change is a complex and messy business that cannot happen unless people change attitudes and behaviors (Armenakis, Harris, & ...

How a nationwide departmental change database could support equitable STEM education
Sam McKagan, American Association of Physics Teachers
We discuss a potential new tool that would bring together several existing projects to support physics departments in departmental change efforts and support departmental change researchers in identifying and ...

Presentations: Session K
Presentations: Session K Tuesday 3:45pm - 4:45pm Scandinavian 2 Presentation What did we START? Three Years Supporting Intergenerational Department Change Teams to Build ...

Presentations: Session H
Presentations: Session H Tuesday 3:45pm - 4:45pm Norway 2 Presentation A New Model for Transdisciplinary Curriculum Development in Higher Education Using the Wicked Problems of ...

A Case Study of How STEM Education Practitioners Think about Change Theory, Change Strategies, and Making Relevant Project Choices
Laura Muller, The Jackson Laboratory; Melissa Eblen-Zayas, Carleton College
Practitioners can be challenged in understanding the language around change strategies and change theories in developing projects to bring about institutional change because of a lack of insider knowledge about how ...