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WIP: Instructors’ Framing of their Instructional Practice

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Portland, Oregon

Publication Date

June 23, 2024

Start Date

June 23, 2024

End Date

July 12, 2024

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 17

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

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Diversity

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Milo David Koretsky Tufts University

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Milo Koretsky is the McDonnell Family Bridge Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and in the Department of Education at Tufts University. He is co-Director of the Institute for Research on Learning and Instruction (IRLI). He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in chemical engineering.

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Amanda Clara Emberley California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-5737-7798

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Dr. Emberley is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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John Galisky University of California, Santa Barbara

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Brian P. Self California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for sev

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Abstract

This WIP study stems from a larger project focused on the propagation of educational technology in diverse instructional settings. During that study 24 faculty from 9 institutions were interviewed several times about a range of aspects of their instruction. We identified how the instructor’s interactions with the educational tool interacted uniquely with their instructional ecosystems in ways that we termed their trajectory of practice. The study reported here extends that work by exploring ways to conceptualize how instructors frame their teaching. For this case study, we contrast two instructor’s framings in an attempt to establish the viability of applying this analytical lens to the whole data set.

One instructor framed their activity as working to get students to solve the specific types of challenging problems in their mechanics course, viewing that as paramount to succeeding in future courses in the curriculum as well as on a common final exam. The other instructor framed practice more expansively, stating that students were “only going to apply a small fraction of the technical content that [they] learned as an undergrad [in professional practice],” but would need the ways of thinking that these problems afforded. Hence, rather than focusing on the future courses in the curriculum, their stated goal was to develop successful engineers. This study contributes theoretical understanding to approaching professional learning by thinking not only about where someone is on their trajectory of practice but also considering how they are framing their practice and what resources they are activating.

Koretsky, M. D., & Emberley, A. C., & Galisky, J., & Self, B. P. (2024, June), WIP: Instructors’ Framing of their Instructional Practice Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/48311

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