PERSIST: Promoting Educational Reform through Strategic Investments in Systemic Transformation

博伊西州立大学通过系统转型战略投资促进教育改革(Persistent)项目是1)从根本上改变STEM基础课程的教授方式；2)应用变革模式(休眠的可可模型)在博伊西州立大学STEM教员、系和课程中推广循证教学实践(EBIP)的使用；以及3)评估EBIP的增加对学生学习和保持的影响。该项目授权一个由六人组成的STEM转型学院伙伴(FAST)团队，该团队由校园教学中心支持，跨越学院和系的界限，领导实施STEM基础课程(例如，普通化学、微积分和微积分预科、普通物理、低级工程课程和高年级地球科学课程)中的最佳实践教学。数学对STEM学生的成功和留住至关重要，是许多项目的综合重点。评估和评价活动正在衡量体制变革、支持教学改革和推动持续改进。该项目的最终影响将是STEM专业和学士学位的增加，包括特别关注STEM中女性和其他代表性不足的群体，从一年级到二年级坚持STEM，以及在STEM教育学方面持续长期努力的大学文化。博伊西州立大学的坚持为如何推动教学实践中的制度变革提供了一个试验场。持续不断的分享坚持的方法和成果的努力正在为地方、区域和国家的STEM教与学的变革提供信息。

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.