Networking STEM Initiatives to Enhance (NSITE) Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices: Archived Meetings

NSITE Second Meeting Goals & Outcomes

Network Meeting goal: Clarify network mission, strengthen network identify and bonds, and work toward common goals.

Network Meeting outcomes - Participants will:

Strengthen bonds in the network toward building a community of leaders across STEM change organizations.
Work on identified challenges to make progress toward goals and plans for continuing the work in the coming year.

Working Group sessions:

Group work 1: Develop searchable membership database
1. Goal: create a searchable cross-listed database of our collective attendees
2. Pre-meeting homework - find out what your privacy rules are for your organizations to know if you can take part in this or not
3. Outcomes:
  1. Determine a mechanism for building the database (Michelle consulted with Jon Waterhouse, IT/database guru for SIs
  2. Brainstorm a list of identifiers - STEM organization affiliations, institution...
  3. Identify a location for the database (QUBES - is one option, but working group will determine if this is the best place given privacy rules of organizations)
  4. Brainstorm a list of uses for database
  5. Form an oversight committee to lead this effort in coming year
    1. Develop a plan for carrying out work during the coming year

Group work 2: Diversify participant pool
1. Goal: Increase participation in our programs by URMs and faculty from CCs and undersourced institutions.
2. Pre-meeting homework
  1. Read the following: https://www.lifescied.org/doi/suppl/10.1187/cbe.19-01-0003/suppl_file/combinedsupmats.pdf
3. Outcomes
  1. Determine barriers to participation for various groups
    1. Annotated bibliography on literature behind this - what’s already known about barriers and successful solutions
    2. Fishbone diagram for causal analysis
  2. Brainstorm a potential supports to overcome those barriers
  3. Develop an action steps to address barriers or disseminate supports
    1. Driver diagram
  4. Form an oversight committee to lead this effort in coming year
    1. Develop a plan for carrying out work during the coming year

Working group 3: Visiting one another’s events
1. Goal: facilitate visits to one another’s events and development of advertising recruitment materials that can be shared with participants at events
2. Pre-meeting homework
  1. 1-page flier, 1 slide
  2. Think about how something like this could be integrated into each orgs events, e.g.. session, poster, slide, handout...
3. Outcomes
  1. Determine who wants to attend what/when
    1. Google doc to capture information easily
  2. Brainstorm strategies for facilitating attendance at one another’s events
    1. Discuss funding options for supporting travel
    2. What about dealing with time constraints
    3. Joint events
  3. Develop shareable products/resources for each other to use as advertisement/recruitment 1-minute video, poster…
    1. Identify strategies/venue for sharing the resources
  4. Identify benefits of attendance at one another’s events
    1. Develop deeper knowledge of one another’s programs to better inform the following:
      1. advertisement/recruitment/advocacy for each other
      2. coordination/collaboration efforts
      3. changes/improvements to our own programs (ideas)
      4. dealing with common challenges
  5. Query participants for reasons that they attend workshops to better understand how/why to incentivize or support attending others
    1. Possibly a survey on why people participant in PD that we could all use -
      1. Check out the Kezar report - why do people join/stay with organizations
      2. What is already known?
      3. https://www.lifescied.org/doi/suppl/10.1187/cbe.19-01-0003/suppl_file/combinedsupmats.pdf
        
        At the end of this is interview quotes about incentives and barriers for CC faculty to participating in PD
      4. A common bibliography of articles on this aspect of PD/FD
  6. Form an oversight committee to lead this effort in coming year
    1. Develop plan for carrying out work during the coming year

Group work 4: Share resources/strategies
1. Goal: Share successful resources and strategies that will help us do our jobs more effectively and better serve and support our participants.
2. Pre-meeting homework
  1. Send an email asking participants for supports that they would like to have
3. Outcomes
  1. Brainstorm a list of resources that would benefit our alumni as they attempt to implement approaches/strategies gained through our programs
  2. Determine a strategy for crowdsourcing our organizations to distribute the work for developing resources that don’t already exist
  3. Identify available resources, for example:
    1. Noah Finkelstein's seminar on how we evaluate teaching: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10MELG8t5xRSBkGFGq3Dh9Pnwadre02O9/view?usp=sharing
    2. Teaching Quality Framework https://www.colorado.edu/teaching-quality-framework/tools-for-teaching-evaluation
    3. Suggested model resource - Evidence based teaching guide on inclusive teaching - https://lse.ascb.org/evidence-based-teaching-guides/inclusive-teaching/?_ga=2.28449594.781361314.1581605057-252472871.1551191766
    4. What else have people read about student resistance to active learning beyond this paper? https://stemeducationjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40594-018-0102-y
    5. The one that comes to mind is: Research and Teaching 2018 Vol 47 No 5-paper with Charles Henderson that looks at explanation vs. facilitation in active learning classrooms and student perceptions of effectiveness
      1. https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-536988207/reducing-student-resistance-to-active-learning-strategies
  4. Determine a mechanism for making these resources known and available to our alumni
  5. Form an oversight committee to lead this effort in coming year
    1. Develop plan for carrying out work during the coming year