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Direct linkLori Ann Mumpower – To Improve the Academy, 2025
The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) created a Small Teaching Challenge, leveraging department chairpersons to encourage faculty adoption of evidence-based, small teaching practices. Inspired by James Lang's "Small Teaching" (2016) and previous collaborations with department…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice
Mallory A. Jackson; Mary Pat Wenderoth – To Improve the Academy, 2024
We sought to identify which aspects of our professional development program, the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate STEM Education (CAUSE), were most useful for the participants. CAUSE was designed to support STEM faculty as they implement evidence-based teaching practices. We interviewed six faculty participants (Fellows) to address…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice
Dana Hayward; Christine Baumgarthuber; Mary C. Wright; Jennifer J. Kim – To Improve the Academy, 2024
A theory of change is a prediction about desired outcomes and the actions that may prompt them. Research on educational change suggests that explicit theories of change are essential for effectively engaging in academic change work. While many centers for teaching and learning (CTL) express aims around organizational change, a recent study was not…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Change, Organizational Change, Teacher Centers
Addy, Tracie Marcella; Reeves, Philip M.; Dube, Derek; Mitchell, Khadijah A. – To Improve the Academy, 2021
Supporting instructor implementation of equitable and inclusive teaching approaches is a critical area of focus in educational development. However, there is limited empirical evidence on factors that either support or hinder instructors' implementation of inclusive teaching. The results of this national survey study reveal several predictors of…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Program Implementation
Smith, Gary A. – To Improve the Academy, 2020
Many faculty members demonstrate unwavering resistance to adopting research-based instructional strategies. This phenomenon commonly fits with motivated reasoning, whereby a person feels threatened by persuasion to change, leading to overtly defensive and sometimes disruptive behaviors and refusal. Changing away from established practices may…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Teacher Motivation
Jacobson, Wayne; Cole, Renee – To Improve the Academy, 2020
Significant progress has been made in understanding science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and ways it can be improved, but propagation of change remains a challenge. This study presents an analysis of STEM faculty responses to open-text survey questions that asked them to identify motivations and obstacles to making…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Faculty, Barriers, Teaching Methods
