Testing a Model for Transforming STEM General Education at Liberal Arts Schools

这个项目的目标是测试一个综合的自下而上/自上而下的机构改革模式在文科学院的STEM部门。广泛的策略是提供动力，以推动从教师驱动的主动“动员”阶段到后续阶段的过渡：“实施”，然后是“制度化”。最初的基层努力已导致基层支持全司参与这一目标。这种变革模式的重点是推动STEM教师进行重大的课程转型，反映出越来越多的证据基础，表明“什么是有效的”，同时发展一个富有成效的STEM学习社区。这将部分通过课程改革奖励来实现，这些奖励将授予个人或教师团队，以重新设计他们的课程或开发新的、团队授课的跨学科课程。与奖项相关的是“最佳实践”教学研讨会，也有来自其他机构的跨学科教师团队参与。这个项目是建立在Ann Austin[促进本科科学教育的循证变革]的工作基础上的。论文发表于第四届基于学科的教育研究现状、贡献和未来方向委员会会议，2011]，Susan Elrod和Adrianna Kezar[促进跨学科学习：从万花筒项目中获得的经验教训]。《变化：高等教育杂志》，2012年1 - 2月。该机构本身将为致力于实现机构转型的电子健康档案赠款支持的机构群体增加更多的多样性。

This project's goal is to test an integrated bottom-up/top-down model of institutional reform within a college of liberal art's STEM division. The broad strategy is to provide momentum to fuel a transition from an active "mobilization" stage of this faculty-driven initiative to subsequent stages: "implementation" and then "institutionalization." Initial grassroots efforts have led to base-level support for division-wide engagement of this goal. This model of change is focused on moving the STEM faculty towards significant course transformation reflective of the growing evidence base indicating "what works" while simultaneously developing a productive STEM learning community. This will be accomplished partly through curriculum reform awards that would be made to individuals or faculty teams to redesign their courses or to develop new, team-taught interdisciplinary courses. Linked to the awards are "best practices" pedagogical workshops that also engage interdisciplinary faculty teams from other institutions.This project is building on the work of Ann Austin [Promoting evidence-based change in undergraduate science education. Paper presented at the Fourth Committee Meeting on Status, Contributions, and Future Directions of Discipline-Based Education Research, 2011] and Susan Elrod and Adrianna Kezar [Facilitating interdisciplinary learning: Lessons learned from Project Kaleidoscope. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, Jan-Feb 2012]. The institution itself will add additional diversity to the group of institutions supported by EHR grants working to achieve institutional transformation.