Departmental Action Teams: Sustaining Improvements in Undergraduate STEM Education Through Faculty Engagement

部门行动团队：通过教师参与持续改进本科 STEM 教育

基本信息

批准号：
1626565
负责人：
Joel Corbo
金额：
$ 191.95万
依托单位：
University of Colorado at Boulder
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2016-09-01 至 2021-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1626565&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Departmental Action Teams Sustaining Improvements

项目摘要

This project continues early work on a new model for institutional transformation through focusing on the need to shift departmental structures and culture to sustain improvements. The main institutional focus for this applied research project is the University of Colorado at Boulder where most of this work will take place. This University has a relatively long history of efforts to engage in STEM education reform. The work centers on a new type of working group, a "Departmental Action Team" (DAT). This team approach was developed by the STEM Institutional Transformation Action Research project, which grew out of the Science Education Initiative at this University that began nearly a decade ago. A DAT is a self-selected group comprised mostly of faculty (but including post docs and students) within a single academic department. DATs serve three main goals. One is to address an educational issue of interest to the department. A second and related goal is to sustain improvements made in solving (or improving) a departmental issue by creating lasting structural and cultural changes. The third goal is to provide a collaborative, community-building experience for DAT members. DATs are departmentally-focused, externally facilitated, faculty-driven, team-based, and focused on creating sustainable changes. Currently this University has six DATs. The focus of this project is to expand substantially the use of DATs to the point where departmentally-driven institutional transformation becomes the new norm. The proposed work involves continuing to study and form DATs at the University of Colorado and expanding the model to Colorado State University (CSU) to see if a clean slate enactment can work. This project will develop: (1) a process for enculturating DAT facilitators and institutionalizing DATs in campus Teaching and Learning Centers (TLCs), (2) a theory of how DATs operate in different contexts, and (3) cultural and structural change metrics. Much research on change in university organizations identifies departmental culture as the lynchpin of change. This study will contribute substantially to understanding the prospects for adopting this model as an effective way to achieve institutional transformation.

该项目继续开展机构转型新模式的早期工作，重点关注转变部门结构和文化以维持改进的需要。该应用研究项目的主要机构重点是科罗拉多大学博尔德分校，大部分工作将在那里进行。这所大学在STEM教育改革方面有着较长的历史。这项工作以新型工作组为中心，即“部门行动小组”(DAT)。这种团队方法是由 STEM 机构转型行动研究项目开发的，该项目源于该大学近十年前启动的科学教育计划。 DAT 是一个自选团体，主要由单个学术部门内的教师（但包括博士后和学生）组成。 DAT 服务于三个主要目标。一是解决该部门感兴趣的教育问题。第二个相关目标是通过创造持久的结构和文化变革来维持在解决（或改进）部门问题方面取得的进步。第三个目标是为 DAT 成员提供协作、社区建设的体验。 DAT 以院系为中心，由外部推动，由教师驱动，以团队为基础，并专注于创造可持续的变革。目前这所大学有六个 DAT。该项目的重点是大幅扩大 DAT 的使用，使部门驱动的制度转型成为新常态。拟议的工作包括继续在科罗拉多大学研究和形成 DAT，并将该模型扩展到科罗拉多州立大学 (CSU)，看看全新的制定是否可行。该项目将开发：(1) 培养 DAT 促进者并将 DAT 在校园教学中心 (TLC) 制度化的流程，(2) DAT 如何在不同背景下运作的理论，以及 (3) 文化和结构变革指标。许多关于大学组织变革的研究都将部门文化视为变革的关键。这项研究将大大有助于了解采用这一模式作为实现制度转型的有效途径的前景。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（8）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Transforming Undergraduate Education From the Middle Out With Departmental Action Teams

通过部门行动团队从中间开始转变本科教育

DOI：
10.1080/00091383.2019.1652078
发表时间：
2019
期刊：
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning
影响因子：
0
作者：
Reinholz, Daniel L.;Pilgrim, Mary E.;Corbo, Joel C.;Finkelstein, Noah
通讯作者：
Finkelstein, Noah

Departmental Action Teams: Supporting faculty learning through departmental change

部门行动团队：通过部门变革支持教师学习

DOI：
发表时间：
2017
期刊：
Learning communities journal
影响因子：
0
作者：
Reinholz, D. L.;Corbo, J. C.;Dancy, M. H.;Finkelstein, N.
通讯作者：
Finkelstein, N.

Externalizing the Core Principles of the Departmental Action Team (DAT) model

部门行动团队 (DAT) 模型核心原则的具体化

DOI：
10.1119/perc.2018.pr.corbo
发表时间：
2019
期刊：
Physics Education Research Conference 2018
影响因子：
0
作者：
Corbo, Joel C.;Quan, Gina M.;Falkenberg, Karen;Geanious, Christopher;Ngai, Courtney;Pilgrim, Mary E.;Reinholz, Daniel L.;Wise, Sarah
通讯作者：
Wise, Sarah

Departmental action teams: Empowering students as change agents in academic departments