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Understanding Conditions for Teaching Innovation in Postsecondary Education: Development and Validation of the Survey of Climate for Instructional Improvement (SCII)
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Walter, Emily M.; Beach, Andrea L.; Henderson, Charles; Williams, Cody T.; Ceballos-Madrigal, Ivan – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2021
Adoption of evidence based instructional practices is not widespread in American institutions of higher education. This is due in part to reforms focusing on individual teaching practices rather than conditions for system reform. Since measurement of organizational conditions is critical for widespread change, we developed and validated the Survey…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Higher Education, Test Construction, Test Validity
Department-Level Instructional Change: Comparing Prescribed versus Emergent Strategies
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Quardokus Fisher, Kathleen; Henderson, Charles – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
Academic departments are thought to be highly productive units of change in higher education. This paper investigates department-level instructional change via case studies analyzed with two change frameworks. One framework embodies prescribed change, emphasizing leader actions. The other framework embodies emergent change, emphasizing…
Descriptors: Departments, Organizational Change, Educational Change, Higher Education
Perceived Affordances and Constraints Regarding Instructors' Use of Peer Instruction: Implications for Promoting Instructional Change
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Turpen, Chandra; Dancy, Melissa; Henderson, Charles – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
In order to promote sustained and impactful educational transformation, it is essential for change agents to understand more about faculty perceptions associated with either adopting or not adopting a research-based instructional strategy (RBIS). In this paper, we use interviews with 35 physics faculty to examine barriers and affordances to the…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Interviews
Enabling and Challenging Factors in Institutional Reform: The Case of SCALE-UP
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Foote, Kathleen; Knaub, Alexis; Henderson, Charles; Dancy, Melissa; Beichner, Robert J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
While many innovative teaching strategies exist, integration into undergraduate science teaching has been frustratingly slow. This study aims to understand the low uptake of research-based instructional innovations by studying 21 successful implementations of the Student Centered Active Learning with Upside-down Pedagogies (SCALE-UP) instructional…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Instructional Innovation, Science Instruction, Student Centered Learning
Diffusion of Research-Based Instructional Strategies: The Case of SCALE-UP
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Foote, Kathleen T.; Neumeyer, Xaver; Henderson, Charles; Dancy, Melissa H.; Beichner, Robert J. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2014
Background: Many innovative teaching strategies have been developed under the assumption that documenting successful student learning outcomes at the development site is enough to spread the innovation successfully to secondary sites. Since this 'show them and they will adopt' model has yet to produce the desired large-scale transformation, this…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Strategies, Instructional Innovation, Student Centered Learning
Use of Research-Based Instructional Strategies in Introductory Physics: Where Do Faculty Leave the Innovation-Decision Process?
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Henderson, Charles; Dancy, Melissa; Niewiadomska-Bugaj, Magdalena – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
During the fall of 2008 a web survey, designed to collect information about pedagogical knowledge and practices, was completed by a representative sample of 722 physics faculty across the United States (50.3% response rate). This paper presents partial results to describe how 20 potential predictor variables correlate with faculty knowledge about…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses, College Faculty