Encouraging the use of Evidence-Based Instructional Practices through Research Initiatives: An assessment of university climate

该奖项是一个更广泛的计划规划赠款。 这项计划补助金的目的是确定目前使用的循证教学实践和限制和驱动影响之间的平衡，为他们在安柏瑞德航空大学（ERAU）的实施，使用跨理论模型健康行为改变。这种模式以前没有应用于教育，它承认变化可以是周期性的，包括对以前状态的复发，类似于对教育创新的传播和STEM教育中签名方法的使用的研究结果。该模型被用于指导从工程学院和艺术与科学学院的教师那里收集混合方法数据，这些教师在工程课程中教授第一年的通识教育STEM课程。正在分析数据，以确定这些教师目前使用的循证教学实践，变化阶段的分布，用于推进变化阶段的过程，以及驱动力和限制力的大小之间的平衡。该项目的成果将被用来提供一个指导，以制定干预措施，根据具体的独立变量与每个教师在普通教育数学，物理科学和工程课程，鼓励使用循证教学实践。目前在ERAU实施的循证教学实践的库存通过这个规划补助金收集将允许ERAU的卓越教学中心利用适当的教师活动，就特定阶段的变化。分析还将导致一项计划，以鼓励驱动力和限制限制力，转向平衡的实施循证教学实践的进步的立场。加强使用这些做法，特别是有利于代表性不足的群体，鼓励学生学习第一年的工程课程，预计将减少学生流失在ERAU。该项目的研究结果的传播将为其他机构提供一个计划，应用健康行为变化的跨理论模型和相关分析，以评估教师在其机构使用循证实践，以及增加采用这些做法的可能性。

This award is for a WIDER program planning grant. The purpose of this planning grant is to identify the current usage of evidence-based instructional practices and the balance between restricting and driving influences for their implementation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) using the Transtheoretical Model for Health Behavior Change. Not previously applied to education, this model acknowledges that change can be cyclic and include relapses to a previous state, similar to findings from research into diffusion of education innovations and use of signature pedagogies in STEM education. The model is being used to guide the collection of mixed-methods data from faculty in the College of Engineering and College of Arts and Science that teach first-year general education STEM courses in the engineering curriculum. Data are being analyzed to identify evidence-based instructional practices currently used by these faculty, distribution of stages of change, processes used to advance through the stages of change, and the balance between the magnitude of driving and restricting forces. The outcomes of this project will be used to provide a guide to develop interventions, based on specific independent variables associated with each individual faculty member in general education mathematics, physical sciences, and engineering courses, encouraging use of evidence-based instructional practices. The inventory of evidence-based instructional practices currently implemented at ERAU collected through this planning grant will allow ERAU's Center of Teaching and Learning Excellence to utilize appropriate faculty activities with respect to particular stages of change. The analysis will also result in a plan to encourage driving forces and limit restricting forces, shifting the balance towards a progressive stance on the implementation of evidence-based instructional practices. The enhanced use of these practices, especially beneficial to underrepresented groups, encourages student learning in first year engineering courses that is expected to reduce student attrition at ERAU. Dissemination of the findings of this project will provide other institutions with a plan to apply the Transtheoretical Model of Health Behavior Change and associated analyses to assess faculty use of evidence-based practices at their institution, as well as to increase the likelihood of adoption of those practices.