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: 2315407
• 负责人: Courtney Ngai
• 金额: $ 8.26万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 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=2315407&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.

该项目旨在通过基于团队的制度变革模型，加深对高等教育机构各部门在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）本科教育转型中所发挥的核心作用的理解，从而服务于国家利益。 ，这个 IUSE：教育轨道 2 - 机构和社区转型 1 级项目调查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。这项研究和开发工作由国家路易斯分校的 STEM 从业者和研究人员进行。大学，大学该项目由科罗拉多州博尔德分校、科罗拉多州立大学和西密歇根大学建立了一个由 STEM 教师、机构管理人员、工作人员和教育研究人员组成的结构化网络，测试了之前针对个体治疗师、研究人员或课程的努力的假设。项目团队认为，以部门为变革引擎的基于团队的变革模式和行动有可能建立和维持本科 STEM 教育的教学转型。多管齐下的项目：(1)一项侧重于本科生 STEM 教育部门变革项目的景观研究，调查其支持变革的方法，以及 (2) 促进包容性社区网络分享发现和建议的做法。该项目的目标是描述 (1) 结构、方法、 STEM 部门变革项目的理论框架和 (2) 网络部门变革推动者的影响 复杂且混合的方法研究和开发项目以系统方法为指导，该系统方法 (a) 由组织学习框架提供信息，并且 (B)。 ）整合了批判理论和该团队以一系列研究问题为框架，研究了一系列数据，以更好地促进对国家高等教育企业中多种类型的学生群体和高等教育机构的部门转型的了解。包括对文献/现有资源的系统回顾、描述部门变革工作的档案、对关键项目负责人的访谈以及对参与者的调查/访谈/观察的信息，数据分析将以演绎和归纳跨案例为指导。分析方法定性数据和基于文本的信息产生部分有序的元矩阵和支持聚类和压缩案例的堆叠案例方法该项目的变革理论和系统方法与所研究的现象和问题的复杂性非常一致。 NSF IUSE：EDU 项目支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的 STEM 教育的有效性。该项目通过机构和社区转型轨道，支持高等教育机构和学科社区的 STEM 教育转型和改进。授予 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估反映使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得支持。