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Janet Callahan Ph.D., Boise State University; Patricia Pyke, Boise State University; Susan Shadle Ph.D., Boise State University; R. Eric Landrum, Boise State University
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Educational Research and Methods
approximately 19,042 (16,136 FTE) has been animportant step toward creating a climate conducive to facilitating fundamental change. Examplesof such change include building collaborations among faculty within and across departments,establishing the identity of students as part of a community beyond their chosen major,improving the efficiency and effectiveness of university systems, and perhaps most importantly,developing a framework to think deliberately about ways to effect change. This paper is focusedon describing and categorizing the development of a STEM “identity” over the past decadewithin a metropolitan campus that does not have an overall STEM central mission.The College of Engineering (CoE), established in 1997 as a result of a regional demand
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Alice L Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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one line of questions for another. This aspect of data analysis – that the data collectionframes the analysis through the identity of the interviewer (or, in cases with more rigid interviewprotocols, that of the protocol designer) – while acknowledged in the qualitative methodliterature,15,17,20–22 has remained opaque in much published engineering education research.We also have come to recognize through our initial analyses, as others have done e.g.,21–23 that ourinterviews with participants are also not simply transparent windows that let us see the Truth ofparticipants’ lives. Participants had stories they wanted to tell us, stories they were willing to tellus, and undoubtedly stories they did not tell us. The interviews, therefore, are