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

该奖项是为一个更广泛的项目规划拨款。这项计划拨款的目的是确定目前基于证据的教学实践的使用情况，以及在安柏瑞德航空大学（ERAU）使用健康行为改变跨理论模型来限制和推动其实施的影响之间的平衡。该模型以前没有应用于教育，它承认变化可以是循环的，包括向以前状态的复发，类似于对教育创新扩散和在STEM教育中使用签名教学法的研究结果。该模型被用于指导工程学院和文理学院的教师收集混合方法数据，这些教师在工程课程中教授一年级通识教育STEM课程。对数据进行分析，以确定这些教师目前使用的基于证据的教学实践，变化阶段的分布，用于通过变化阶段推进的过程，以及驱动力和限制性力量之间的平衡。该项目的成果将用于指导制定干预措施，基于与通识教育数学、物理科学和工程课程中每个教员相关的特定独立变量，鼓励使用循证教学实践。通过该计划拨款收集的ERAU目前实施的循证教学实践清单将允许ERAU的卓越教学中心针对特定的变化阶段利用适当的教师活动。分析还将产生一项计划，以鼓励驱动力和限制制约力量，将平衡转向以证据为基础的教学实践的进步立场。这些实践的加强使用，特别是对代表性不足的群体有益，鼓励学生在第一年的工程课程中学习，预计将减少ERAU的学生流失率。本项目研究结果的传播将为其他机构提供一个计划，以应用健康行为改变的跨理论模型和相关分析来评估教师在其机构中使用循证实践的情况，并增加采用这些实践的可能性。

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.