Collaborative Research: Characterizing the emerging field of departmental change and empowering an inclusive network of practitioners

协作研究：描述部门变革的新兴领域并增强包容性从业者网络

• 批准号: 2315406
• 负责人: Sarah Wise
• 金额: $ 17.69万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315406&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Characterizing; emerging; field

This project aims to serve the national interest by advancing understanding of the central role that departments in higher education institutions play in the transformation of undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Based on team-based models of institutional change, this IUSE: EDU Track 2 - Institutional and Community Transformation Level 1 project investigates successful departmental change efforts to identify effective strategies and elements that support institutionalization and sustainability. This research and development effort is being conducted by STEM practitioners and researchers from the National-Louis University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado State University, and Western Michigan University. Establishing a structured network of STEM instructors, institutional administrators, staff, and education researchers, the project tests the hypothesis that prior efforts that focused on individual practitioners, researchers, or courses were largely ineffective. The project team posits that team-based change models and actions that focus on the department as the engine of change have the potential to establish and sustain the transformation of teaching and learning in undergraduate STEM education. The project team proposes a two-pronged project: (1) A landscape study focusing on undergraduate STEM education departmental change projects that investigates their methods for supporting change and (2) catalyzing an inclusive community network for sharing findings and recommended practices. The goals of the project are to describe (1) the structures, approaches, and theoretical frameworks of STEM departmental change projects and (2) the impacts of networking departmental change agents. The complex and mixed methods research and development project is guided by a systems approach that (a) is informed by an organizational learning framework and that (B) integrates a critical theory and equity/social justice approach to better advance knowledge on departmental transformation across the many types of student populations and institutions of higher education that populate the post-secondary education enterprise of the Nation. Framed by a set of research questions, the team examines a corpus of data and information that consist of a systematic review of the literature/existing resources, and an archive depicting departmental change efforts, interviews with key project leaders, and surveys/interviews/observation of participants. Data analyses will be guided by deductive and inductive cross-case approaches to analyzing qualitative data and text-based information resulting in a partially ordered meta-matrix and a stacking cases approach to support clustering and condensing cases. The project’s theory of change and systems approach are well-aligned with the phenomena under study and the complexity of the problem. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Institutional and Community Transformation track, the project supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目的目的是通过促进对高等教育机构部门在科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）方面的教育转变中发挥的中心作用来提高中心作用来满足国家利益。基于基于团队的机构变革模型，此IUSE：EDU轨道2-机构和社区转型级别1项目研究了成功的部门变革工作，以确定支持制度化和可持续性的有效策略和要素。这项研究与发展工作由国家路易斯大学，科罗拉多州科罗拉多州立大学科罗拉多大学和西密歇根大学的STEM从业人员和研究人员进行。该项目建立了一个结构化的STEM讲师，机构管理人员，员工和教育研究人员的网络，该假设检验了以下假设：以前专注于个人从业人员，研究人员或课程的努力在很大程度上无效。该项目团队认为，基于团队的变革模型和行动将重点放在部门上，因为变革的引擎有可能建立和维持本科生STEM教育中教学和学习的转变。项目团队提出了一个两管齐的项目：（1）一项景观研究，重点是本科STEM教育部门变革项目，该项目调查了他们支持变更的方法，以及（2）催化包容性的社区网络，用于共享发现和推荐实践。该项目的目标是描述（1）STEM部门变更项目的结构，方法和理论框架以及（2）网络部门变更代理的影响。复杂而混合的方法研发项目的指导是通过系统方法来指导的，即（a）通过组织学习框架为（b）整合了一种批判理论和公平/社会正义方法，以更好地提高对许多类型的学生人口和高等教育机构的部门转型知识，从而使该国的后期教育企业居住。由一系列研究问题构成，团队考试由对文献/现有资源进行系统审查以及描述部门变更工作的档案，对关键项目负责人的访谈以及对参与者的调查/访谈/观察。数据分析将通过演绎和归纳性跨案例方法来指导，以分析定性数据和基于文本的信息，从而导致部分有序的元元素以及支持聚类和冷凝案例的堆叠案例方法。该项目的变革和系统方法理论与正在研究的现象和问题的复杂性相吻合。 NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型的轨道，该项目支持努力在高等教育和学科社区的机构中转变和改善STEM教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来通过评估来支持的。