Paper ID #25936Board 82: Lessons Learned: Using a Faculty Developer’s Skillset to Facilitatea Challenging Revision Process – A Student Evaluation of Teaching ExampleDr. Amy B Chan Hilton, University of Southern Indiana Amy B. Chan Hilton, Ph.D., P.E., F.EWRI is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and a Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern Indiana (USI). Her interests include faculty and organizational development, teaching and learning innovations, and systems thinking applied to educational contexts. Prior to joining USI, Dr. Chan Hilton served as a Program Director at the
Paper ID #25932Connecting Theory with Practice: Four Change Projects in Faculty Develop-ment for EngineeringDr. Amy B. Chan Hilton, University of Southern Indiana Amy B. Chan Hilton, Ph.D., P.E., F.EWRI is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and a Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern Indiana (USI). Her interests include faculty and organizational development, teaching and learning innovations, and environmental systems analysis. Prior to joining USI, Dr. Chan Hilton served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation with experience in the Engineering Education
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motivation andteaching. Research in preparing and supporting faculty as they transition pedagogical paradigmsinto those that engage and cultivate students in an active learning environment is of current needand will grow as more active learning spaces are designed and built.The faculty development program was a deliberate collaboration bringing together the expertiseof three campus units - the College of Engineering, the Center for Teaching Excellence, andInstructional Technology Services. Titled the Active Learning in Engineering Program (ALEP),the researchers created a comprehensive faculty development program that consisted of fivemain components: (a) a learning management system online community, (b) a workshop series,(c) community of scholar’s
relationships to form.AcknowledgementsSpecial thanks to the Kern Family Foundation grant for providing the financial support necessaryto create and pilot the Master Mentor Model at ASU.References[1] Chung, C. E., & Kowalski, S. (2012). Job stress, mentoring, psychological empowerment,and job satisfaction among nursing faculty. Journal of Nursing Education, 51(7), 381-388.[2] Long, Z., Buzzanell, P. M., Kokini, K., Wilson, R. F., Batra, J. C., & Anderson, L. B. (2018).Mentoring Women and Minority Faculty in Engineering: A Multidimensional MentoringNetwork Approach. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 24(2).[3] Will be added later to maintain anonymity[4] Will be added later to maintain anonymityAppendix A - Interview
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notion of done beingbetter than perfect and acknowledging that no training effort will reach 100% of its intendedaudience, we are considering the possibility that a standalone handout (not just for TAs butfaculty, staff, and anyone else serving a teaching, mentoring, or advising role) could be betterthan nothing. Continuing collaboration with the counseling center, as well as research on similarefforts on other campuses, will undoubtedly inform the details of these implementation efforts.References[1] National Institute of Mental Health. (2017). Mental illness. Retrieved from https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness.shtml[2] Evans, T. M., Bira, L., Gastelum, J. B., Weiss, L. T., & Vanderford, N. L. (2018
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Paper ID #27326Panel Session: Connecting Theory and Practice in a Change Project - AndWhat I Wish I Knew Before I StartedElizabeth C. Harris, University of Wisconsin, Madison Elizabeth Harris has been part of the University of Wisconsin Madison’s College of Engineering since 2012. She approaches Engineering Education opportunities by leveraging her background in cognitive and systems engineering in addition to her background in education. She particularly enjoys working to improve the effectiveness of institutions, and the experiences of students, faculty, and academic staff by addressing the holistic ecologies present
of Washington Ms. Doten-Snitker is a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Washington’s Center for Eval- uation and Research for STEM Equity, where she is part of a team conducting evaluation research for university-level educational and professional training, with a focus on increasing equity and participation of underrepresented and minority students and professionals. She has contributed to evaluation research for a range of programs funded by the NSF, NIH, and USAID. Additionally, she is a Doctoral Candidate in Sociology at the University of Washington, where her scholarship focuses on political processes of inclusion and exclusion.Dr. Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth
Paper ID #26101Insights into the Nature of Change and Sustainability in an Ongoing FacultyDevelopment EffortProf. Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University Jill Nelson is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University. She earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Rice Uni- versity in 1998. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for graduate study, earning an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Dr. Nelson’s research focus is in statistical signal processing, specifically detection and
disciplines at a large southwestern university. The project,funded by the Kern Family Foundation, began in fall of 2018 with the aim of institutionalizingthe entrepreneurial mindset (EM), improving and expanding evidence-based pedagogicalstrategies in capstone courses, and creating a faculty Community of Practice to share resourcesand best classroom practices.Sixteen capstone faculty from multiple engineering disciplines participated in three workshopsand three coaching sessions in the fall semester. The workshops promoted the EM andevidence-based pedagogical best practice and covered topics including: (a) ‘cultivatingcuriosity’ for opportunity recognition, (b) writing measurable student learning objectives, (c)‘making connections’ in the design
this pilot helped directour newest revision to the orientation [4]. The schedule for the Fall 2018 Engineering GSIOrientation is shown in table 1. The italicized print indicates new or updated sessions. 5 minutes Welcome from the College of Engineering 15 minutes Overview of the Program, Policies and Resources 25 minutes Introduction of the Science of Learning 95 minutes Inclusive Teaching Theater Performance 55 minutes Concurrent Workshops A (One from: The Science of Learning, Leading Discussion Sections, Managing Lab Classes, or Handling Office Hours) 55 minutes Concurrent Workshops B (One from: The Science of Learning, Teaching Problem Solving, Grading, or Handling Office Hours
Paper ID #25473Democratizing Faculty Development - Establishing a Training Program at aNew Computer Science University in Russia.Ms. Oksana Zhirosh, Innopolis University Oksana Zhirosh is a Head of English Division at Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia. With over 15 years of experience in education, she is focused on the research in teaching methodology, gender diversity in STEM, teaching intellectually advanced youth.Dr. Joseph Alexander Brown, Innopolis University Joseph Alexander Brown was born in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, Canada, on July 6, 1985. He received the B.Sc. (Hons.) with first-class standing in computer
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Paper ID #26053Work in Progress: A Taxonomy for Faculty Scaffolding of Project-basedLearningDr. John McNeill, Worcester Polytechnic Institute John McNeill received his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in 1983, M.S. from the University of Rochester in 1991, and Ph.D. from Boston University in 1994. From 1983 to 1990 he worked in industry in the design of high speed, high resolution analog-to-digital converters and low noise interface electronics used in wide dynamic range imaging systems. In 1994, he joined Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he now is Professor and Dean of
Paper ID #26668Education Redesigned: Impacting Teaching and Learning through a FacultyDevelopment Course Redesign ProgramDr. Jason FitzSimmons, Center for Instructional Excellence, Purdue University Jason FitzSimmons received a B.S. (1998) and M.S. (2000) degree in Civil Engineering and a Ph.D. (2010) in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His primary areas of interest are active learning spaces, Engineering and STEM development as well as curriculum and program development.Dr. Chantal Levesque-Bristol, Purdue University Chantal Levesque-Bristol is professor of Educational
was complete, all courses with less than five studentswere removed from the data. Within the remaining course data, grade distributions varied acrosscourses in that some instructors used the +/- scale of letter grades and others did not. In order tolimit variation, plus and minus grades were removed by compiling them into their respectiveletter grades. For instance, the number of students receiving A+, A, and A- would be summedand labeled as students receiving an A for the class. The grade distribution scale includes A, B,C, D, E, and W. Additionally, in order to control for the diversity of class size across the data set,the percentage of students receiving each final letter grade (i.e. A) were calculated. Lastly, thedata set was limited to
development program. Further, low-SES student data were compared to higher-SES student data to determine if the rate of change was similar or different between the twogroups pre- and post-instructor professional development. For each course, the percentage oflow- and high-SES students receiving different final grades (A, B, C, or DEW) werecalculated.Data Analysis and ResultsOur main interest in this paper was to determine if participating in the professionaldevelopment program had any effect on achievement of low-income students. Studentachievement was measured through final letter grade awarded in each class (A, B, C, orDEW). The data was categorized into two student groups: low-SES and high-SES. The datawere assessed in two ways: (a) comparing
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identified needis proposed in Appendix B. This plan could also take into account other faculty aspects (e.g.,research, administrative training). In the proposed plan, a given program is characterized byfaculty career stage and considers six elements (participation, complexity level, funding, programtype and evaluation). This elements are explained in the following paragraphs.Participation of faculty members in training programs could be mandatory or not according toindividual departmental hiring and promotion policies. To date, no policies are in place; everydepartment has its own policies. Regarding incentives, it is known that faculty members’participation might increase with the providing of incentives. Complexity level is defined as
relationship building whichcan, in turn, make a difference in career success, exploring networks, sponsors, mentors, andcollaborators. The proposed model highlights a duality of strategies to serve faculty early intheir career (mentee) and more senior in their career (mentor). Collecting feedback from theparticipants in this study on the proposed model (Appendix B) provides a significant benefit andimmediate contribution.Background Kathy Kram [5] set out to study how adults affect other adults in the work place. Shestayed away from using the term “mentor” because of the host of contradictory meaningsassociated with it and she coined the term “developmental relationship” instead. Developmentalrelationships occur when an influential individual
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to attend future T&L Academy event (value toother colleagues); 3) The event helped to enhance faculty community in the college. (a) (b) The survey results clearly show that most participants thought the summer workshop was valuable to their self-development and that of their colleagues. In addition, 91% of participants agreed that the T&L event positively contributed
-campus workshops were custom-madefor the fellows and included: (a) how to germinate transformative ideas by no longer seeing ideasas precious; (b) how to become an effective collaborator by adapting the Toolbox Project; (c)how to move ideas forward by drawing on the game “Chutes & Ladders” where the chutesrepresent common obstacles and the ladders are shortcuts; (d) how to manage time at work, andin life; and (e) how to classify, understand, and know when and how to implement intentionalversus emergent research strategies. As a culminating activity, the faculty then pitched theirideas to university and community leadership. In conjunction with this pitch event, an advocatewas assigned to each fellow to help connect their ideas to future
Opportunities,” New Dir. High. Educ., no. 143, pp. 11–19, 2008.[14] C. Fitzmorris, R. Shehab, and D. Trytten, “The career goals of non-tenure-track full-time engineering faculty,” in 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2016, pp. 1–6.[15] B. L. Yoder, “Engineering by the Numbers,” in ASEE Profiles of Engineering and Engineering Technology Colleges, 2017, pp. 1–37.[16] A. Kezar, “Examining Non-Tenure Track Faculty Perceptions of How Departmental Policies and Practices Shape Their Performance and Ability to Create Student Learning at Four-Year Institutions,” Res. High. Educ., vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 571–598, 2013.[17] M. K. Eagan Jr., A. J. Jaeger, and A. Grantham, “Supporting the Academic Majority
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