ERIC Number: EJ1340110
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 30
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ISSN: EISSN-2334-4822
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Focus on Outcomes: Fostering Systemic Departmental Improvements
Reinholz, Daniel L.; Pilgrim, Mary E.; Stone-Johnstone, Amelia; Falkenberg, Karen; Geanious, Christopher; Ngai, Courtney; Corbo, Joel Christopher; Wise, Sarah B.
To Improve the Academy, v40 n2 p122-151 Win 2021
This article describes how a focus on outcomes can be a tool for guiding systemic change. By focusing on positive outcomes to be achieved, a group can guide its collective efforts toward an ideal future rather than becoming fixated on individual problems to solve. While there is support for an outcome-guided approach in the literature on individual and organizational change, this approach has not been used extensively to support department-level changes in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.
Descriptors: Educational Change, Goal Orientation, STEM Education, Departments, Problem Solving, Undergraduate Students, Outcome Based Education, Student Improvement, Skill Development, Organizational Change
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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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