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The National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) is headquartered at CU Boulder, and a non-profit organization chartered in 2004 by the National Science Foundation to increase the participation of girls and women in computing. Before NCWIT was formed, programs focusing on women and…
Pedagogy | Cultural Change | Access | Technology | Leadership CommitmentThe Center for STEM Learning: Housed within the Graduate School, the Center for STEM Learning (CSL) was officially formed on December 20, 2012. CSL is an outcome of the NSF Grant “I3: Towards a Center for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Education.”
Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership CommitmentIn 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 CommitmentIn 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 is working to restructure the core course sequences for engineering and physics majors. The primary focus of this initiative is to transition from traditional lecture to more deliberate pedagogical approaches to enhance student learning and retention.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceCornell University is undertaking campus-wide and discipline-specific initiatives to provide graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with practical experience in planning for, stimulating, and assessing undergraduate learning with lunchtime workshops and targeted events on developing assessment…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceThe 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 ExcellenceAs a response to the findings of an institutional assessment, Duke university has a three-pronged, overlapping approach to enhancing the success of incoming Duke students who have traditionally struggled the most in the STEM curriculum.
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 Excellence