Collaborative Research: Creating National Leadership Cohorts for Making Academic Change Happen

合作研究：创建国家领导团队以实现学术变革

• 批准号: 1649318
• 负责人: Julia Williams
• 金额: $ 20.9万
• 依托单位: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-01 至 2020-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649318&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Creating; National; Leadership

Within the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education community, there are repeated calls for changing the way students are educated. Knowledge of change processes are familiar to individuals in business and industry, but represent new arenas for engineering and computer science faculty who envision change in engineering and computer science education on their campuses. In this project, faculty are introduced to the knowledge, skills, and abilities of research-based change strategies through the customized Making Academic Change Happen Curriculum. This curriculum is delivered annually at the Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments (RED) Program Investigator Meeting. After the meeting, faculty receive monthly support through coaching and through the community of change leaders represented in each RED cohort. The research part of this project uses observations, document analysis, phone interviews and focus groups to determine how the strategies impact the success or failure of each planned change project. In addition, the formation of a national cohort of change leaders in STEM education enlarges the community of scholars known to be engaged in change practices and can provide important models for change. The lack of systemic change within the STEM education community points to an important problem with the approach to change that has been pursued thus far. Change has been targeted at the course and curriculum levels, focusing on teaching and learning. The project seeks to address this specific problem by addressing the following question: Can the limits of change in STEM education be overcome by focusing on the individual change agents in terms of their skills and change expertise?In this project, the Making Academic Change Happen customized change curriculum is being offered at the Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments (RED) Investigators Meeting. The work of three cohorts of RED recipients is being tracked as they use the knowledge, skills, and abilities offered in the customized curriculum to enact change on their own campuses. The intellectual merit of the research work lies in determining - through observation, document analysis, interviews, and focus groups - how change knowledge, skills, and abilities are learned, applied, and contribute to the success of each change project. The research questions addressed are as follows:1. What are the baseline skills in change management that RED recipients possess at the start of their projects?2. What traits/components/characteristics contribute to the success of engineering education change project leaders?3. How does the MACH curriculum support a change leader's ability to make change?4. How do change agents empower stakeholders to develop a shared vision for change?5. How does contents, broadly defined, affect the ability to create and sustain change?The broader impact of this project lies in the creation of a national leadership cohort for change in engineering and computer science education. By enlarging the community of scholars known to be engaged in change practices, the engineering and computer science communities benefit from models for change (described in the case studies produced by the project) and increased understanding of an individual's agency to affect change.

在科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 教育界，人们不断呼吁改变学生的教育方式。变革过程的知识对于商界和工业界的个人来说是熟悉的，但对于工程和计算机科学教师来说却代表了新的领域，他们设想在校园内进行工程和计算机科学教育的变革。在该项目中，通过定制的“实现学术变革”课程，向教师介绍基于研究的变革策略的知识、技能和能力。 该课程每年在革命工程和计算机科学系 (RED) 项目研究者会议上提供。 会议结束后，教师每月通过辅导和每个 RED 队列中代表的变革领导者社区获得支持。 该项目的研究部分使用观察、文件分析、电话访谈和焦点小组来确定策略如何影响每个计划的变革项目的成功或失败。 此外，全国 STEM 教育变革领导者队伍的形成扩大了参与变革实践的学者群体，并可以为变革提供重要的模型。 STEM 教育界缺乏系统性变革，这表明迄今为止所追求的变革方法存在一个重要问题。 变革针对的是课程和课程层面，重点是教学和学习。 该项目旨在通过解决以下问题来解决这一具体问题：通过关注个体变革推动者的技能和变革专业知识，能否克服 STEM 教育变革的局限性？在该项目中，定制了“让学术变革发生”革命性工程和计算机科学系 (RED) 研究人员会议正在提供变革课程。我们正在跟踪三组 RED 接受者的工作，因为他们利用定制课程中提供的知识、技能和能力在自己的校园中实施变革。 研究工作的智力价值在于通过观察、文件分析、访谈和焦点小组来确定如何学习、应用变革知识、技能和能力，并为每个变革项目的成功做出贡献。 研究问题如下： 1． RED 接收者在项目开始时拥有哪些变革管理的基本技能？2.哪些特质/组成部分/特征有助于工程教育变革项目领导者的成功？3。 MACH 课程如何支持变革领导者进行变革的能力？4.变革推动者如何帮助利益相关者制定共同的变革愿景？5.从广义上讲，内容如何影响创造和维持变革的能力？该项目更广泛的影响在于建立了工程和计算机科学教育变革的国家领导团队。 通过扩大已知参与变革实践的学者群体，工程和计算机科学界受益于变革模型（在该项目产生的案例研究中描述）以及对个人影响变革的机构的更多了解。

项目成果

Creating National Leadership Cohorts for Making Academic Change Happen: Sharing Lessons Learned Through RED Participatory Action Research (REDPAR) Tipsheets

创建国家领导团队以实现学术变革：分享通过 RED 参与行动研究 (REDPAR) 提示表吸取的经验教训

• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
• 作者: Williams, J.;Litzler, E.;Margherio, C.;Doten-Snitker, K.;Andrijcic, E.;and Mohan, S.
• 通讯作者: and Mohan, S.

Board 157: Creating National Leadership Cohorts for Making Academic Change Happen: Sharing Lessons Learned Through RED Participatory Action Research (REDPAR) Tipsheets

Board 157：创建国家领导小组以实现学术变革：分享通过 RED 参与行动研究 (REDPAR) 提示表获得的经验教训

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--32275
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: 2019 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
• 作者: Williams, Julia;Litzler, Elizabeth;Margherio, Cara;Andrijcic, Eva;Doten-Snitker, Kerice
• 通讯作者: Doten-Snitker, Kerice

The RED Teams Start-Up Session: Leveraging Research with Practice for Success in Academic Change

红色团队启动会议：利用研究与实践取得学术变革的成功

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--35360
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
• 作者: Williams, Julia;Mohan, Sriram;Andrijcic, Eva;Margherio, Cara;Litzler, Elizabeth;Doten-Snitker, Kerice
• 通讯作者: Doten-Snitker, Kerice

Developing a Shared Vision for Change: Moving toward Inclusive Empowerment

• DOI: 10.1007/s11162-020-09594-9
• 发表时间: 2020-05-07
• 期刊: RESEARCH IN HIGHER EDUCATION
• 影响因子: 2.1
• 作者: Doten-Snitker, Kerice;Margherio, Cara;Williams, Julia
• 通讯作者: Williams, Julia

Building Your Dream Team for Change

打造变革梦想团队

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--32489
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: 2019 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
• 作者: Margherio, Cara;Doten-Snitker, Kerice;Litzler, Elizabeth;Williams, Julia;Andrijcic, Eva;Mohan, Sriram
• 通讯作者: Mohan, Sriram