Kaci Thompson

Attributes of Faculty Learning Communities that Influence Faculty Attitudes and Practices part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Events:Meetings and Conferences:Transforming Institutions Conference 2021:Program:Poster Presentations:Poster Session A:Poster Session A-2
Faculty learning communities (FLCs) have been proposed as a mechanism for facilitating faculty adoption of more effective, student-centered teaching practices (SCTP). We refer to FLCs as groups of faculty members ...

Using a Faculty Learning Community to Promote Student Metacognitive Skills part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Events:Meetings and Conferences:Transforming Institutions Conference 2021:Program:Poster Presentations:Poster Session D:Poster Session D-1
Undergraduate students often arrive unprepared for an environment where deep conceptual understanding, application, and synthesis are valued over memorization of facts. There are many metacognitive strategies to ...

Guided by Evidence: Changing the Disciplinary Culture of Teaching and Learning part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Events:Meetings and Conferences:Transforming Institutions Conference:Program:Oral Presentations:Session F
Students learn better when they are actively engaged in constructing knowledge, but teaching approaches that foster student engagement are far from widespread in undergraduate STEM classrooms. To remedy this, the ...

Using Data-Driven Faculty Professional Development To Promote Change In Undergraduate Education part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Events:Meetings and Conferences:Transforming Institutions Conference:Program:Oral Presentations:Session B
Employers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields report that recent graduates are deficient in important workplace skills (e.g., collaboration, professional writing). This has motivated ...