Collaborative Research: Mapping Change in Higher Education-Social Networks and STEM Reforms

合作研究：绘制高等教育社交网络和 STEM 改革的变化图

• 批准号: 1726409
• 负责人: Brian Couch
• 金额: $ 52.42万
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-10-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1726409&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Mapping; Change; Higher

This is a collaborative proposal from three institutions that have been implementing institutional transformation grants for at least three years. (These are grants to institutions that have promised to embark on a process of increasing the use of evidence-based teaching methods. The grants typically support professional development activities and incentives for STEM faculty to change their teaching strategies. In addition, the grant activities are conducted in the context of one or more theories about how systemic change occurs.) Two of these grants were from the earlier WIDER Program (Widening the Implementation and Demonstration of Evidence-based Reforms) and one was from the Institutional Transformation track of the current IUSE: EHR Program. This proposal includes one PI from each of these earlier grants, with the goal of finding the transformation strategies that are effective at these institutions, which differ in the level of faculty participation in local and national networks focused on improved STEM teaching, the institutional presence of scholars who study how students learn STEM, and the institutional incentives available to promote increased use of evidence-based teaching practices. The research will examine interaction effects between teaching networks and research networks, particularly intra-institutional research networks. This project will broaden our knowledge of effective institutional change models and help efforts in other institutions to encourage evidence-based teaching. The research conducted in this project focuses on the cooperative and joint activities of the STEM faculties. It will examine how members of the STEM faculties associate with each other professionally in their teaching and their research, both within the institution and nationally. Among other things, it will examine how participation in national teaching networks focused on specific teaching methods of proven value increases the participant?s influence on institutional colleagues with whom they network. The impact of stronger networks will be examined though the networks? impact on individual faculty choices of teaching methods and on basic measures of student success in lower division STEM courses. The project is constructed around the application of social network analysis and use of the Classroom Observation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM, which has proven relatively easy to implement.

这是三个机构的合作提案，这些机构已经实施了至少三年的机构转型赠款。（这些是向承诺开始增加使用循证教学方法的机构提供的赠款。这些赠款通常支持专业发展活动，并激励STEM教师改变教学策略。 此外，赠款活动是在一个或多个关于系统性变化如何发生的理论的背景下进行的。其中两笔赠款来自早期的WIDER计划（扩大循证改革的实施和示范），一笔来自当前IUSE的机构转型轨道：EHR计划。该提案包括来自这些早期赠款的一个PI，其目标是找到在这些机构有效的转型战略，这些机构在教师参与地方和国家网络的水平上有所不同，这些网络侧重于改善STEM教学，研究学生如何学习STEM的学者的机构存在，以及可用于促进更多使用循证教学实践的机构激励措施。本研究将探讨教学网络与研究网络，特别是校内研究网络之间的互动效应。该项目将扩大我们对有效的机构变革模式的了解，并有助于其他机构鼓励循证教学的努力。 在这个项目中进行的研究侧重于STEM学院的合作和联合活动。它将研究STEM学院的成员如何在机构内和国家范围内在教学和研究方面相互专业联系。 除其他外，它将审查如何参与国家教学网络，重点是具体的教学方法的证明价值增加参与者？的影响力机构的同事与他们的网络。 更强大的网络的影响将通过网络检查？影响个别教师的教学方法的选择和学生成功的基本措施，在较低的司STEM课程。该项目是围绕社会网络分析的应用和本科生STEM课堂观察协议的使用而构建的，该协议已被证明相对容易实施。

项目成果

Development of the Cooperative Adoption Factors Instrument to measure factors associated with instructional practice in the context of institutional change

开发合作采用因素工具来衡量制度变革背景下与教学实​​践相关的因素

• DOI: 10.1186/s40594-022-00364-w
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: International Journal of STEM Education
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: McAlpin, Jacob D.;Ziker, John P.;Skvoretz, John;Couch, Brian A.;Earl, Brittnee;Feola, Stephanie;Lane, A. Kelly;Mertens, Karl;Prevost, Luanna B.;Shadle, Susan E.
• 通讯作者: Shadle, Susan E.

Investigating how faculty social networks and peer influence relate to knowledge and use of evidence-based teaching practices

• DOI: 10.1186/s40594-019-0182-3
• 发表时间: 2019-08-14
• 期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STEM EDUCATION
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: Lane, A. K.;Skvoretz, J.;Stains, M.
• 通讯作者: Stains, M.

Context and content of teaching conversations: exploring how to promote sharing of innovative teaching knowledge between science faculty

教学对话的背景和内容：探索如何促进科学教师之间创新教学知识的共享

• DOI: 10.1186/s40594-022-00369-5
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: International Journal of STEM Education
• 影响因子: 6.7
• 作者: Lane, A. Kelly;Earl, Brittnee;Feola, Stephanie;Lewis, Jennifer E.;McAlpin, Jacob D.;Mertens, Karl;Shadle, Susan E.;Skvoretz, John;Ziker, John P.;Stains, Marilyne
• 通讯作者: Stains, Marilyne