ERIC Number: EJ987802
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-1383
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Facilitating Change in Undergraduate STEM Education
Beach, Andrea L.; Henderson, Charles; Finkelstein, Noah
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, v44 n6 p52-59 2012
Despite having significant knowledge of effective practices, along with curricular and pedagogical resources, efforts to transform introductory sequences have met with only modest success. While educators may know what to do, they do not know how to enact and sustain these reforms at scale. What they need is a framework for understanding STEM instructional "change". In this article, the authors propose such a framework to provide a tool for those engaged in educational transformation at the undergraduate level, particularly within STEM education. They summarize findings from an interdisciplinary literature review, introduce a typology of change strategies, and use these to make recommendations for mechanisms of change. (Contains 1 figure and 8 resources.)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, STEM Education, Undergraduate Study, Teaching Methods, Educational Improvement, Reflective Teaching, Curriculum, Educational Policy, Information Dissemination, Policy Formation, Faculty Development, College Faculty
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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