PERSIST: Promoting Educational Reform through Strategic Investments in Systemic Transformation

博伊西州立大学通过系统性转型的战略投资促进教育改革（PERSIST）项目从根本上改变了基础STEM课程的教学方式；2)应用变化模型（休眠CACAO模型）在博伊西州立大学的STEM教师、部门和课程中推广循证教学实践（EBIP）的使用；3)评估增加使用EBIP对学生学习和记忆的影响。该项目授权了一个由六名成员组成的STEM转型（FAST）团队，由校园教学与学习中心支持，该团队跨越学院和部门的界限，在基础STEM课程（如普通化学、微积分和微积分预科、普通物理、低年级工程课程和高年级地球科学课程）中提供最佳实践教学法的实施领导。数学对STEM学生的成功和保留至关重要，是许多项目的综合重点。评估和评价活动衡量制度变化，支持教学改革，并推动持续改进。该项目的最终影响将是增加STEM专业和学士学位，包括特别关注女性和其他STEM中代表性不足的群体，从一年级到二年级坚持学习STEM，以及维持长期努力不断改进STEM教学法的大学文化。博伊西州立大学的PERSIST项目为如何推动教学实践中的制度变革提供了一个试验场。分享PERSIST的方法和成果的持续努力正在为地方、区域和国家的STEM教学和学习变革提供信息。

Boise State University's Promoting Educational Reform through Strategic Investments in Systemic Transformation (PERSIST) project is 1) fundamentally changing how foundational STEM courses are taught; 2) applying a change model (Dormant's CACAO Model) to propagate the use of evidence-based instructional practices (EBIP) among STEM faculty, departments, and curricula at Boise State; and 3) assessing the impact of increased use of EBIP on student learning and retention. The project is empowering a six-member Faculty Associates for STEM Transformation (FAST) Team, supported by the campus Center for Teaching and Learning, that is reaching across college and departmental boundaries to provide leadership for implementation of best practice pedagogies in foundational STEM courses (e.g., General Chemistry, Calculus and Pre-calculus, General Physics, lower division Engineering courses, and upper division Geoscience courses). Mathematics, crucial to STEM student success and retention, is an integrated focus in many of the projects. The assessment and evaluation activities are measuring institutional change, supporting pedagogical reform, and driving continuous improvement. The ultimate impact of the project will be increases in STEM majors and bachelor's degrees, including a specific focus on women and other underrepresented groups in STEM, persistence in STEM from first to second year, and a university culture that sustains long-term efforts of continuous improvement in STEM pedagogy. Boise State's PERSIST is providing a testing ground for how to drive institutional change in teaching practices. Ongoing efforts to share the approach and results of PERSIST are informing transformation of STEM teaching and learning locally, regionally, and nationally.