Lessons from the HERI STEM Summer Institute at UCLA Paul Whitney 2516 Goals for Todays Workshop Share ideas on best practices to benefit our students Stimulate collaborations to promote an ID: 804386
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STEM Education Workshop
Overview and
Lessons from the HERI STEM Summer Institute at UCLA
Paul Whitney
2-5-16
Slide2Goals for Today’s Workshop
Share ideas on best practices to benefit our students
Stimulate collaborations to promote an
institution-wide
culture of effective STEM education.
Assist the building of teams that can be competitive for extramural funding for STEM initiatives.
Change the world for the better!
Slide3It will take patience and perseverance, but we can succeed!
Slide4Our Schedule
9:00 Broad initiatives at WSU
10:30 Breakout sessions I &II
11:30 Lunch
12:00 Group discussion of morning topics
1:30 Funding opportunities
1:45 Wrap-up/Next steps
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Slide5UCLA’s HERI STEM Summer Institute:
Lessons Learned
http://www.heri.ucla.edu/
Comments from Funders (NSF; HHMI; Helmsley)
Evidence-based practices with measures of baselines
Rigor as scholars brought to the educational research enterprise
Efforts guided by a logic model
Build communities of practice
Use funding to create catalytic, sustainable activity
Pay attention to how your innovative practice will scale up
Slide6UCLA’s HERI STEM Summer Institute:
Lessons Learned
Persistence
(draws heavily from IES/IPEDS data)
Some
key factors in persistence in the major
Prior
preparation; Research opportunities; Science clubs; Climate
(welcoming vs stereotyping; Pre-med hyper-competitiveness
); Early success; Finances
Completion rates at doctoral research intensive universities < masters universities (holding selectivity constant)
There are often pockets of productive programs that are driven by individuals rather than comprehensive university approaches to persistence.
Slide7UCLA’s HERI STEM Summer Institute:
Lessons Learned
Role of Active Learning in Institutional STEM Productivity
“
If lectures were a medical procedure, the evidence on its effectiveness would make it unethical to continue the procedure.”
Both faculty and student resistance to change. TA training models have been used successfully to get techniques to catch on.
See
http://iamstem.ucdavis.edu/
for an example of an institutional approach to coordination and assistance in active learning
Slide8UCLA’s HERI STEM Summer Institute:
Lessons Learned
Factors common to successful university initiatives
See Auchincloss et al.
http://www.lifescied.org/content/13/1/29.short
Accessibility: Teach scientific practice as a means to an end
Discovery: Answer not already known
Relevant: Make broad relevance of the research clear
Collaboration: Science as a team effort
Iteration: Findings inform next efforts of same or new students
Slide9And finally an appeal for a broader STEM agenda…