Wayne State University is a large, public, urban-serving research university located in Midtown Detroit. Over the past 6 years, we have longitudinally measured both faculty attitudes related to their teaching as well as self-reported use of instructional practices. Campus-based interventions were initiated to address perceived barriers. One major reform effort is called the SSTEP Fellows Program in which faculty teams propose specific projects important to them and their department. Successful applicants receive financial support, peer mentoring by a faculty learning community, and input from an instructional designer over the two-year period of the award. Fellows are responsible for monitoring changes in student learning and performance, while the instructional designer and grant steering committee monitor faculty practices related to the effective uptake and implementation of the student-centered pedagogies through COPUS observation and coaching. We will present the outcomes from the 10 teams who have participated in the SSTEP Fellows program, evidence of transformations in their teaching and discuss the impact of the Fellows' work on departmental attitudes and initiatives related to teaching.

Understanding barriers to faculty adoption of evidence-based pedagogies and the implementation of campus-based interventions to transcend those barriers

2019 Spring National Meeting

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