ERIC Number: EJ1255766
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Apr
Pages: 33
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ISSN: ISSN-1069-4730
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Increasing the Use of Evidence-Based Teaching in STEM Higher Education: A Comparison of Eight Change Strategies
Borrego, Maura; Henderson, Charles
Journal of Engineering Education, v103 n2 p220-252 Apr 2014
Background: Prior efforts have built a knowledge base of effective undergraduate STEM pedagogies, yet rates of implementation remain low. Theories from higher education, management, communication, and other fields can inform change efforts but remain largely inaccessible to STEM education leaders, who are just beginning to view change as a scholarly endeavor informed by the research literature. Purpose: This article describes the goals, assumptions, and underlying logic of selected change strategies with potential relevance to STEM higher education settings for a target audience of change agents, leaders, and researchers. Scope/Method: This review is organized according to the Four Categories of Change Strategies model developed by Henderson, Beach, and Finkelstein (2011). We describe eight strategies of potential practical relevance to STEM education change efforts (two from each category). For each change strategy, we present a summary with key references, discuss their applicability to STEM higher education, provide a STEM education example, and discuss implications for change efforts and research. Conclusions: Change agents are guided, often implicitly, by a single change strategy. These eight strategies will expand the repertoire of change agents by helping them consider change from a greater diversity of perspectives. Change agents can use these descriptions to design more robust change efforts. Improvements in the knowledge and theory base underlying change strategies will occur when change agents situate their writing about change initiatives using shared models, such as the one presented in this article, to make their underlying assumptions about change more explicit.
Descriptors: STEM Education, Undergraduate Study, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Higher Education, Change Agents, Evidence Based Practice
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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