Change theory in STEM higher education: A systematic review

DL Reinholz, I White, T Andrews - International Journal of STEM Education, 2021 - Springer
This article systematically reviews how change theory has been used in STEM higher
educational change between 1995 and 2019. Researchers are increasingly turning to …

Evidence that communities of practice are associated with active learning in large STEM lectures

JH Tomkin, SO Beilstein, JW Morphew… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Background With the increased attention on the need to retain students within STEM majors,
it is important for STEM instructors to adopt evidence-based instructional practices that are …

Expanding faculty members' zone of proximal development to enact collective agency for racial equity in faculty hiring

R Liera - The Journal of Higher Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study examined how a professional development initiative on racial equity facilitated
the expansion of faculty members' agency to use a critical race-consciousness lens to …

Instructional Influencers: Teaching Professors as Potential Departmental Change Agents in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

M Wilton, J Maloy, L Beaster-Jones, BK Sato… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2024 - lifescied.org
At many research-intensive universities in North America, there is a disproportionate loss of
minoritized undergraduate students from Science, Technology, Engineering, and …

The development of university teachers' collaboration networks during a departmental professional development project

I Noben, J Brouwer, JF Deinum… - Teaching and Teacher …, 2022 - Elsevier
Professional interaction in the workplace is an indispensable part of professional
development. We examined how teachers' teaching collaboration networks within a …

STEM courses are harder: evaluating inter-course grading disparities with a calibrated GPA model

JH Tomkin, M West - International Journal of STEM Education, 2022 - Springer
Background Grades in college and university STEM courses are an important determinant of
student persistence in STEM fields. Recent studies have used the grade offset/grade penalty …

STEM education institutional change projects: examining enacted approaches through the lens of the Four Categories of Change Strategies Model

S Feola, JE Lewis, JD McAlpin, LB Prevost… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Background Enacting STEM education reform is a complex task and there are a variety of
approaches that might be selected by change agents. When working on an institutional …

Effects of gender diversity on college students' collaborative learning: From individual gender to gender pairing

Q Feng, H Luo, W Li, T Chen, N Song - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
This study investigated the effects of gender and gender pairing on behaviors and social
interaction during collaborative learning in a blended learning environment. Three types of …

Knowledge Transfer in a Two-Mode Network between Higher Education Teachers and Their Innovative Teaching Projects.

E Stasewitsch, S Kauffeld - Journal of Learning Analytics, 2022 - ERIC
Knowledge transfer (KT) and innovation diffusion are closely related to each other because
it is knowledge regarding an innovation that gets adopted. Little research in learning …

Association of malleable factors with adoption of research-based instructional strategies in introductory chemistry, mathematics, and physics

BJ Yik, JR Raker, N Apkarian, M Stains… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Active learning pedagogies are shown to enhance the outcomes of students, particularly in
disciplines known for high attrition rates. Despite the demonstrated benefits of active …