Research Focus
Building upon our prior work, we designed a large-scale study that will test and apply our current model of instructional change teams with many teams. More specifically, we aim to explore the interconnections between the inputs, processes, emergent states, and team outcomes through a mixed-methods approach. Our goal is to create and use a new research instrument (a survey for team members) that can measure critical elements of how instructional change teams are set up, how they work together, and the team outcomes. This work is funded by the NSF award “Furthering the work of STEM Undergraduate Transformation: Modeling Instructional Change Teams,” NSF # 1914857 and #1914880.
Building upon our prior work, we designed a large-scale study that will test and apply our current model of instructional change teams with many teams. More specifically, we aim to explore the interconnections between the inputs, processes, emergent states, and team outcomes through a mixed-methods approach. Our goal is to create and use a new research instrument (a survey for team members) that can measure critical elements of how instructional change teams are set up, how they work together, and the team outcomes. This work is funded by the NSF award “Furthering the work of STEM Undergraduate Transformation: Modeling Instructional Change Teams,” NSF # 1914857 and #1914880.
We are looking for collaborators!
During this four-year project (that started in 2020), we are looking to build mutually beneficial collaborations with leaders and members of additional instructional change teams across the US. The exact form of this collaboration is flexible, as our needs (and yours!) are likely to evolve during the project. Contributing to our research could involve:
If you are interested in building a collaboration with us, please contact Alice Olmstead at alice.olmstead@txstate.edu. You are also welcome to contact anyone else from our project team.
- Team members, project leaders, and/or department chairs at your institution participating in interviews about their interpretations of and reactions to our current model of instructional change teams;
- Team members and/or project leaders at your institution giving feedback on drafts of our new survey instrument;
- Team members pilot-testing or using our new survey instrument; and/or
- Team members and/or project leaders participating in interviews or focus groups about their own data from this instrument.
- Help you to incorporate use of our model into grant proposals to expand or initiate team-based instructional change work at your institution;
- Provide summary reports of your team's data that could be used for project evaluation (click on the example report PDF below);
- Help you to identify strengths and weaknesses of a team or teams at your institution; and/or
- Provide you with periodic updates about new project findings that may help your team(s) to be successful.
If you are interested in building a collaboration with us, please contact Alice Olmstead at alice.olmstead@txstate.edu. You are also welcome to contact anyone else from our project team.
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This work is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) awards #1525393, #1914857, and #1914880.
