WIDER: EAGER: GVSU Inventory of Instructional Practices

大峡谷州立大学（GVSU）是一所综合性硕士大学，目前正在进行一项基于证据的教学实践的意识和使用的内部清单。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；3)试点项目，以增加对循证实践的采用。这项教师调查是根据工程学、物理学和地球科学本科教育方面的类似努力进行的。问题是评估教师对具体实践的认识，以及他们如何学习新的教学策略。正在收集人口统计数据，以确定潜在的相关性：学科、教员级别、性别和兼职身份。面对面访谈的对象包括管理人员、终身教职员工和教授STEM关键门户课程的兼职教师。针对兼职教师是该项目的一个关键组成部分，因为与他们的终身教职同事相比，他们可能不太了解基于证据的实践。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保留率方面是有效的。提高大学教师对这些实践的认识和采用可能对STEM教育产生重大影响。该项目提供了关于兼职和兼职教师人数不断增长的重要结果，并将研究结果应用于实施项目，以增加在本科STEM教育中使用循证实践。

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.