Institutional change initiatives involve executing an intentional strategy to influence teaching practices within a specific institution. This research investigates NSF-funded change initiatives at three public research universities that were focused on encouraging the adoption of evidenced-based instructional practices (EBIPs) by STEM faculty. As part of an effort to understand how the three institutions approached this task, we performed qualitative document analysis of each initiative’s annual reports to NSF.  Inductive coding based on the Four Quadrants Model of change strategies was used to examine specific actions documented in each report. Preliminary analysis indicates that there are distinct differences among the universities’ approaches to institutional change.  This talk will focus on insights for institutional change that emerged from the analysis.

Understanding institutional change initiatives: How three universities approached influencing adoption of evidenced-based teaching practices in STEM

ACS Spring Meeting 2021

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