Conference Session

Faculty Development Work-in-Progress Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jim L. Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Ken Yasuhara, University of Washington; Kamal Abdulla Ahmed, University of Washington; David Schipf, University of Washington

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Faculty Development Constituency Committee

project groups, and each group develops a consensus list ofcharacteristics of exemplary and terrible group members. These characteristics become thecriteria they later use for peer assessment.Over the course of many workshops in several years, we have collected these lists from hundredsof groups and have begun analyzing them for common patterns. We discuss encouraging resultssuggesting that even lower-division undergraduates list characteristics that align well with theconditions that the group learning and project management literatures identify as contributing tosuccessful learning and project completion, respectively.We conjecture that much of the workshop’s value lies in two distinct outcomes: (1) helpingstudents articulate and place

Conference Session

Evidence-based Practices in Faculty Development

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Cadwell, Syracuse University; Michelle M. Blum, Syracuse University; Julie M. Hasenwinkel, Syracuse University; Carol Elizabeth Stokes-Cawley, Syracuse University

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Faculty Development Constituency Committee

form of student-active pedagogies, in target 1st- and 2nd-year gateway courses, improving the classroom environment and student learning andpersistence.To this end the team created an intensive summer pilot program aimed at faculty who teachgateway engineering and computer science classes. Faculty were invited to participate in the2017 Summer Gateway Course Redesign Working Group, the purpose of which was to modifygateway classes to include and/or enhance students’ active learning and test the success of thesechanges in their classrooms in the 2017-2018 academic year.Those who participated in the Program received: peer and technical support, time and space towork on new ideas, a summer salary supplement and an additional supplement