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The Colorado Learning Assistant (LA) Model: Launched at CU Boulder in 2003, its purpose is to increase STEM research faculty members’ awareness and involvement in evidence-based reforms and to support STEM teacher recruitment and preparation.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional DevelopmentThe CU-SEI program has had a broad array of impacts. Across the program as a whole, over 100 faculty have been impacted by the SEI, with over 90 having modified their instruction based on the SEI efforts.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | DataThe STEM Institutional Transformation Action Research (SITAR) Project, housed in the Center for STEM Learning, aims to improve undergraduate STEM education by professionalizing educational practice through measurement, assessment, and cultural change.
Pedagogy | Educational Practices | Scaffolding | Faculty Professional Development | Data | Cultural Change | Leadership CommitmentTRESTLE is a 7-institution NSF-funded project to support improvements in undergraduate STEM education through (1) supporting course design projects, (2) enhancing educational expertise in departments, and (3) building communities within and across campuses to enhance the impact of local experts.
Pedagogy | Educational Practices | Scaffolding | Faculty Professional Development | Cultural Change | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceBy creating coordinated partnerships among 2-year colleges and the 4-year research universities in Colorado, we will create pathways that increase the number of students, and the quality of their preparation, from historically underrepresented populations in the STEM fields (including students
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Pedagogy | Articulated Learning Goals | Access | Scaffolding | Faculty Professional DevelopmentIn early 2016, the REBUILD committee harnessed the momentum provided by REBUILD to launch a university-wide Foundational Course Initiative. In partnership with Michigan’s Center for Research on Teaching and Learning, we talked to hundreds of administrators, faculty, staff, and students representing…
Pedagogy | Assessments | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Access | Cultural Change | Leadership Commitment | Scaffolding | Data | Faculty Professional Development | TechnologyThe purpose of the Graduate Research and Teaching Fellows Program at Cornell University is to provide graduate students considering academic positions in higher education with advanced teaching and professional development opportunities to become excellent teachers.
Pedagogy | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceThe Gateway Science Workshop (GSW) is a peer-led program designed to improve performance and retention of students in introductory STEM gateway courses at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University.
Pedagogy | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceTo advance undergraduate education, the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) at Northwestern provides professional development programs for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in STEM and SBE (social, behavioral, economic) disciplines.
Pedagogy | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellencePrinceton's Science and Engineering Education Initiative aims to inspire and prepare all undergraduates, irrespective of their majors, to become scientifically and technologically literate citizens and decision-makers.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Data | Leadership Commitment