WIDER: EAGER: GVSU Inventory of Instructional Practices

大谷州立大学(GVSU)是一所综合性硕士大学，正在对目前对循证教学实践的认识和使用情况进行内部盘点。该项目包括三个主要活动：1)广泛的教师调查，2)有针对性的教师访谈和3)试点计划，以增加对循证实践的采用。这项教师调查是根据工程、物理和地球科学本科教育中类似的努力进行的。问题是评估教师对具体实践的认识，以及他们如何了解新的教学策略。正在收集人口统计数据，以确定潜在的相关性：学科、教职员工级别、性别和兼职状态。面对面的采访包括管理人员、终身教职教师和教授关键STEM门户课程的兼职教师。以兼职教师为目标是该项目的一个关键组成部分，因为与他们的终身教职跟踪同事相比，他们可能对循证做法的认识较少。学生参与教学法已被证明在提高所有本科生，尤其是女性和第一代大学生的留存方面是有效的。提高大学教师对这些做法的认识和采用，可能会对STEM教育产生重大影响。该项目正在提供关于兼职和兼职教职员工人数不断增长的重要结果，并将这些发现应用于实施在本科STEM教育中增加循证实践的项目。

Grand Valley State University (GVSU), a comprehensive master's university, is conducting an internal inventory of the current awareness and use of evidence-based instructional practices. The project includes three primary activities: 1) an extensive faculty survey, 2) targeted faculty interviews and 3) pilot programs to increase adoption of evidence-based practices. The faculty survey is informed by similar efforts reported in engineering, physics and geosciences undergraduate education. Questions are assessing faculty awareness of specific practices and how they learn about new teaching strategies. Demographic data are being collected to identify potential correlations: discipline, faculty rank, gender and part-time status. Face-to-face interviews include administrators, tenure-track faculty and part-time instructors that teach key STEM gateway courses. Targeting part-time instructors is a key component of the project because they may be less aware of evidence-based practices compared to their tenure-track colleagues. Student engagement pedagogies have been shown effective at improving retention of all undergraduates but especially women and first-generation college students. Increasing the awareness and adoption of these practices by university instructors could have a significant effect on STEM education. This project is providing important results about a growing population of part-time and adjunct faculty members, and applying the findings to implement programs to increase the use of evidence-based practices in undergraduate STEM education.