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An Overview of the Four CoreChange Strategies for ReformingSTEM Instruction
Charles HendersonAndrea Beach
Western Michigan University
Noah Finkelstein
University of Colorado, Boulder
www.homepages.wmich.edu/~chenders
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Starting Point:
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We know a lot about:
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effective teaching of college-level STEM
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how to apply this knowledge inindividual classrooms
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A significant problem is:
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finding ways to scale effective practicesso that all undergraduate studentsexperience them
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A Larger Literature Review:Preliminary Results*
Current Status:
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Literature Search
~400 relevant journal articles identified
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Preliminary Analysis
Use 130 articles (randomly selected) to develop four categories of change strategies
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Ongoing Analysis (target completion – Spring 2009)
Complete analysis of remaining articles – modifyingcategories and coding criteria as necessary
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Next Steps (Winter/Spring 2009)
DELPHI (distilling knowledge from a group of experts)
*Supported by NSF DRL-0723699
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