Neumeyer, X., & Foote, K. T., & Beichner, R. J., & Dancy, M. H., & Henderson, C. (2014, June), Examining the Diffusion of Research-Based Instructional Strategies Using Social Network Analysis: A Case Study of SCALE-UP  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2--20448

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  Neumeyer, X., \& Foote, K. T., \& Beichner, R. J., \& Dancy, M. H., \& Henderson, C. (2014, June), \emph{Examining the Diffusion of Research-Based Instructional Strategies Using Social Network Analysis: A Case Study of SCALE-UP}
  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  10.18260/1-2--20448

Xaver Neumeyer, Kathleen Teressa Foote, Robert J. Beichner, Melissa H. Dancy, and Charles Henderson.  "Examining the Diffusion of Research-Based Instructional Strategies Using Social Network Analysis: A Case Study of SCALE-UP".  2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2014.  https://peer.asee.org/20448 Internet.  12 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_20448}
  Xaver Neumeyer, Kathleen Teressa Foote, Robert J. Beichner, Melissa H. Dancy, and Charles Henderson.
  "Examining the Diffusion of Research-Based Instructional Strategies Using Social Network Analysis: A Case Study of SCALE-UP".
  \emph{2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2014.
  https://peer.asee.org/20448 Internet.  12 Dec, 2024

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AB  -               Diffusion of research-based instructional strategies: A census of SCALE-UPOverviewImplementing research-based instructional strategies into practice has been an ongoing challenge forSTEM educators. Available evidence indicates that while these efforts have had an impact on mainstreamteaching, the majority of teaching is still inconsistent with what research has shown to be best practices(Dancy and Henderson 2010; Handelsman et al. 2004; Henderson and Dancy 2009; Redish 2003;McCray, DeHaan, and Schuck 2002). Our project involves a case study of the spread of one particularresearch-based instructional strategy, Student-Centered Active Learning Environment for UndergraduatePrograms (SCALE-UP). SCALE-UP was chosen because it has been shown to be effective in a variety ofcontexts, has spread informally from one adopter to another, and has crossed into multiple STEMdepartments at a variety of institutions (Beichner and Saul 1999; Beichner et al. 2000). The first phase ofthe project is to use a national survey to better understand the spread of SCALE-UP. The survey wasdistributed to individual educators that had expressed interest in SCALE-UP (e.g. workshops,presentations, publications, individual consultations) as well as through several listservs related to STEMeducation. Snowball sampling was used to identify additional respondents. In this paper we will examinethe following research questions:    1. How widespread is the use of SCALE-UP throughout different institutions and academic       departments in the U.S.?    2. When SCALE-UP is used, what does implementation look like?Sample of Preliminary ResultsHere, we highlight two interesting findings from our preliminary analysis of the survey. The final paperwill report substantially more analysis and results. Our survey results indicate that SCALE-UP use hasbeen reported by about 460 instructors (STEM and Non-STEM) at 217 academic institutions throughoutthe U.S. However, SCALE-UP use in more than one department, was only found in 27% of theseinstitutions (see Figure 1).       Figure 1 Proportion of academic departments per institution that use SCALE-UP in the U.S.Concerning the implementation of SCALE-UP in different fields, we found that classroom tools such asround tables, clickers or laptops were more commonly used by physics instructors than by instructors inother disciplines such as chemistry or biology. For example, the majority (60%) of physics instructorsreported to use classroom response systems (e.g. clickers), whereas chemistry, biology, non-STEM, andengineering and computer science instructors reported a level of use that ranged between 32% and 20%(see Figure 2).                      Figure 2 Use of classroom tools to enhance group interactionSummaryThe results of this study will increase the value of the substantial R&D efforts in science education bybetter understanding how and why research-based innovations come to be integrated in mainstreamteaching and developing recommendations for increasing the impact of research-based reforms.Beichner, R. J., and J.M. Saul. 1999. “Student-centered Activities for Large-enrollment University        Physics (SCALE-UP).” In Proceedings of the Sigma Xi Forum on the Reform of Undergraduate        Education, pp. 43–52.Beichner, R.J., J.M. Saul, R.J. Allain, D.L. Deardorff, and D.S. Abbott. 2000. “Introduction to SCALE-        UP: Student-Centered Activities for Large-Enrollment University Physics.” In Proceedings, 2000        American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. Washington,        DC: American Society for Engineering Education.Dancy, Melissa, and Charles Henderson. 2010. “Pedagogical Practices and Instructional Change of        Physics Faculty.” American Journal of Physics 78: 1056.Handelsman, Jo, Diane Ebert-May, Robert Beichner, Peter Bruns, Amy Chang, Robert DeHaan, Jim        Gentile, Sarah Lauffer, James Stewart, and Shirley M. Tilghman. 2004. “Scientific Teaching.”        Science 304 (5670): 521–522.Henderson, Charles, and Melissa H. Dancy. 2009. “Impact of Physics Education Research on the        Teaching of Introductory Quantitative Physics in the United States.” Physical Review Special        Topics-Physics Education Research 5 (2): 020107.McCray, Richard A., Robert L. DeHaan, and Julie Anne Schuck. 2002. Improving Undergraduate        Instruction in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Report of a Workshop.        National Academies Press.Redish, Edward F. 2003. Teaching Physics: With the Physics Suite. John Wiley & Sons Hoboken, NJ.
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