%0 Generic %1 Laverty2014Engaging %A Laverty, James T. %A Tessmer, Stuart H. %A Cooper, Melanie M. %A Caballero, Marcos D. %D 2014 %K teaching %T Engaging Physics Faculty in Course Transformation %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3260 %X Research has shown that changing departmental culture to place more value on teaching is difficult. Michigan State University is working to transform its introductory physics courses by engaging faculty in discussions about the scientific practices and core ideas of the discipline, and to use those discussions to drive change to both assessments and classroom instruction. Here we discuss our model of change, its implementation in the Physics and Astronomy department, the challenges encountered along the way and how we've mitigated those challenges, and tools to measure the impact of this change.

@misc{Laverty2014Engaging, abstract = {{Research has shown that changing departmental culture to place more value on teaching is difficult. Michigan State University is working to transform its introductory physics courses by engaging faculty in discussions about the scientific practices and core ideas of the discipline, and to use those discussions to drive change to both assessments and classroom instruction. Here we discuss our model of change, its implementation in the Physics and Astronomy department, the challenges encountered along the way and how we've mitigated those challenges, and tools to measure the impact of this change.}}, added-at = {2019-02-23T22:09:48.000+0100}, archiveprefix = {arXiv}, author = {Laverty, James T. and Tessmer, Stuart H. and Cooper, Melanie M. and Caballero, Marcos D.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2bb64bda765b3f68815a05b1e1815ced8/cmcneile}, citeulike-article-id = {13267509}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3260}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.3260}, day = 11, eprint = {1407.3260}, interhash = {efa42d97d80cafa422b1b555e1755ca1}, intrahash = {bb64bda765b3f68815a05b1e1815ced8}, keywords = {teaching}, month = jul, posted-at = {2014-07-16 11:02:43}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2019-02-23T22:15:27.000+0100}, title = {{Engaging Physics Faculty in Course Transformation}}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3260}, year = 2014 }