Spreading Teaching Innovations in Social Networks: the Bridging Role of Mentors
Spreading Teaching Innovations in Social Networks: the Bridging Role of Mentors
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在社交网络中传播教学创新：导师的桥梁作用
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10.1007/s41979-018-0002-6
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2018
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Matthew West
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作者：
Shufeng Ma;Geoffrey L. Herman;J. Tomkin;J. Mestre;Matthew West
虽然循证教学实践（EBIP）通常可以提高学生在STEM方面的表现，但传统的授课仍然是中学后环境中最常见的教学实践。本研究探讨了一个制度变革计划，组织干教师到实践社区（COP），以促进采用和EBIP在中学后课堂的传播。在这个项目中，警察是由教师谁拥有高质量教学的倡导者跟踪记录辅导。为了传播这些做法，有关这些做法的知识需要一个传播途径。我们假设CoP导师通过在不同的CoP之间创建桥接关系来提供这些途径，从而跨越结构漏洞。为了验证这一假设，一个社会计量学调查管理文件100名教师的社会互动有关的教学。蒙特卡洛排列测试显示，导师显着增加了密度，连通性和集中化的制度变革计划的教学社交网络比任何其他随机选择的教师。我们还发现，CoP导师是最有可能连接其他未连接CoP参与者的人。这些研究结果表明，CoP导师在提供桥梁方面发挥了重要作用，可以促进有关教学创新的知识在网络中的传播。
Although Evidence-Based Instructional Practices (EBIP) generally improve students’ performance in STEM, traditional lecturing remains the most common instructional practice in postsecondary settings. This study examines an institutional change program that organized STEM faculty into communities of practice (CoPs) to facilitate the adoption and spread of EBIP in postsecondary classrooms. In this program, CoPs were mentored by faculty members who have a track record as advocates for high-quality teaching. In order for practices to spread, knowledge about those practices needs an avenue to spread. We hypothesized that CoP mentors provide these avenues by creating bridging ties between the disparate CoPs, thus spanning structural holes. To test the hypothesis, a sociometric survey was administered to document 100 faculty members’ social interactions concerning teaching. A Monte Carlo permutation test revealed that the mentors significantly increased the density, connectedness, and centralization of the institutional change program’s teaching social network more than any other random selection of faculty members. We also found that CoP mentors were the most likely individuals to connect otherwise unconnected CoP participants. These findings suggest that the CoP mentors played an important role in providing the bridges that can facilitate the spread of knowledge about teaching innovations across the network.