Improving How Universities Teach Science: Lessons from the Science Education Initiative

✍ Scribed by Carl Wieman

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Too many universities remain wedded to outmoded ways of teaching. Too few departments ask whether what happens in their lecture halls is effective at helping students to learn and how they can encourage their faculty to teach better. But real change is possible, and Carl Wieman shows us how it can be done—through detailed, tested strategies.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
1. The Vision
2. The SEI Model for Achieving Change
3. The Process of Making Change
4. Science Education Specialists: Agents of Change
5. What Was Achieved and What We Learned
6. The Post- Mortem: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Why Coda
Appendix 1: SEI Course Transformation Guide
Appendix 2: Guide to Interviewing Students and Faculty
Appendix 3: Examples of SES Advertisements and Interview Questions
Appendix 4: Sample Questions for SES Interviews
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index