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Journal article
Institutionalizing evidence-based STEM reform through faculty professional development and support structures
International journal of STEM education, v 9(1), pp 36-36
2022
PMID: 35578717
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Abstract
Even though student-centered instruction leads to positive student outcomes, direct instruction methods are still prevalent. Multiple barriers prevent faculty from further adopting evidence-based student-centered practices and holistic approaches to faculty support are necessary to promote faculty change. The Collaborative for Institutionalizing Scientific Learning (CISL) is an HHMI-funded program to reform undergraduate science and mathematics education at a large Hispanic-Serving public research university. The program has established a Faculty Scholar support model to impact the number of science and mathematics faculty using evidence-based practices in their classrooms. Through this program, Scholars are selected to undertake a transformation of a course of their choice and conduct an assessment of the impact of the reform on students-while receiving multiple supports including summer salary, undergraduate Learning Assistants, professional development, course assessment and education research support, and opportunities to develop manuscripts on their course transformations.
CISL has supported over 40 Faculty Scholars in the transformation of both introductory and upper division biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics courses. Faculty are motivated to transform a course due to factors related to their own experiences and beliefs, their students' needs, the course structure, and/or departmental elements. Quantitative analysis of the impact of the project on student success show that, overall, students in CISL-supported courses have higher passing rates compared to students in traditional classrooms. Survey and interviews of Faculty Scholars identified that the most valuable elements of the program were the personnel support from undergraduate Learning Assistants during reform implementation and guidance from the program's Assistant Director during design, implementation and evaluation.
The CISL program provides an example of significant effort sustained over several years to systematically improve the quality and culture of undergraduate education in a large research-intensive Hispanic Serving Institution. The program has had an overall positive impact on the professional development of Faculty Scholars and led to an increase in the number of STEM courses implementing evidence-based teaching practices, thus, taking a step towards solidifying a culture of evidence-based instructional strategies in STEM departments.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40594-022-00353-z.
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- Title
- Institutionalizing evidence-based STEM reform through faculty professional development and support structures
- Creators
- Sreyasi Biswas - University of CalgaryRocio Benabentos - Florida International UniversityEric Brewe - Drexel UniversityGeoff Potvin - Florida International UniversityJulian Edward - Florida International UniversityMarcy Kravec - Florida International UniversityLaird Kramer - Florida International University
- Publication Details
- International journal of STEM education, v 9(1), pp 36-36
- Publisher
- Springer BMC
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000794875100001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85129928583
- Other Identifier
- 991019168141104721
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