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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 Integrated Teaching and Learning Program (ITL) is nationally recognized as an award-winning engineering education leader, this program supports hands-on engineering learning through an innovative environment where students integrate engineering theory with practice and learn through doing.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Educational Practices | Technology | FacilitiesThe 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 | DataMathematics Teacher Education Partnership: Actively Learning Mathematics Research Action Cluster: A nationwide network of 38 teams — spanning 30 states, 69 universities, 87 school systems, 9 community colleges, and a variety of other interested institutions — working collaboratively to reform…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Educational Practices | Faculty Professional DevelopmentIn 2014, the University of Michigan launched an NSF-funded program to reinvent introductory teaching and learning in the core STEM disciplines. REBUILD (Researching Evidence-Based Undergraduate Instructional and Learning Developments) aimed to promote recruitment, retention, and academic…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Data | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceThe 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 ExcellenceIn 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 | TechnologyBrown University focuses on improving the mathematical competency among STEM majors by seeking to introduce evidence-based, high impact practices in first and second year STEM courses. The goal, reducing attrition from science and improving students’ identification with science as a career.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching Excellence | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceCornell University’s College of Engineering offers Academic Excellence Workshops to enhance student learning of content in several key gateway courses in engineering. Designed to enhance student understanding, the workshops feature peer-facilitated group work on problems at or above the level of…
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