higher education. Although Texas is improving at increasing college completions for students from groups that traditionally have not earned certificates or degrees in large numbers, the state has not improved quickly or broadly enough to keep up with the changes in demographics. Completions in Higher education must reflect the population as a whole. (THECB, 2015)The report continues to state that: While continuing to pursue increased knowledge and higher standards of excellence in teaching, research and innovation, two- and four-year colleges in Texas will need to consider more explicitly the primary reason most students attend college: to get a better job and achieve a better life
Asking participants to reflect on how the following factors may have impacted their work: § Team size and composition; § Leader structure (single leader vs. co-leader); § External circumstances.Category Description ExampleCourses Efforts to either design a new Re-organizing an introductory course or to substantially engineering course around a set of revise an existing offering real-life scenarios and the use of design thinkingCredentials Efforts to introduce a new A major, minor or certificate in program of study available to innovation
was discussed and adjusted. To compensate for a lack of an item describing“associational thinking” in the original Dyer scale, two additional statements were developed todescribe this construct.Finally, to convert the modified behavioral statements from an agree-disagree scale into a self-efficacy measure, the scale instructions were adjusted to reflect a self-efficacy intent (“Pleasethink about how confident you are in your ability to do these activities”). A comparison of theoriginal Dyer et al. IBS behavioral items and the restated ISE.5 self-efficacy items is shown inAppendix A.4.0 MethodsThe validity and reliability of the ISE.5 measure was confirmed through three studies. Study 1outlines the process of evolving the Dyer et al. scale