Joel Corbo

Departmental Action Teams can catalyze sustained change at individual, group, and organization levels part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Conferences and Events:Conferences and Meetings:Transforming Institutions Conference 2025:Program:Presentations:45 Minute Oral Presentations
Models supporting sustained departmental change have emerged in recent years, including the Departmental Action Team (DAT) Project. However, a gap exists in our understanding of mechanisms by which change occurs ...

Bridging research and practice: How the EP3 Initiative supports faculty uptake of departmental change strategies part of Transforming Institutions Conference 2023:Program:Presentations:Session B
There is abundant evidence of practices that support strong undergraduate programs, such as shared leadership and using data to guide programmatic changes. Yet in many physics and other STEM departments, motivating ...

Sustained department-wide changes achieved by Departmental Action Teams part of Transforming Institutions Conference 2023:Program:Presentations:Session C
The Departmental Action Team (DATs) project developed a new model supporting departmental change and ran seventeen DATs across the time period of 2014-2021. DATs were based in a wide variety of academic ...

Physics department culture of assessment and change: Results from the EP3 Chair's Survey part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Conferences and Events:Conferences and Meetings:Transforming Institutions Conference 2021:Program:Poster Presentations:Poster Session B:Poster Session B-1
The APS Effective Practices for Physics Programs (EP3) Project Team surveyed chairs at physics-degree-granting departments nationwide to assess their perspectives on assessment practices and departmental change. ...

Supporting Departmental Change Efforts in Physics with Departmental Action Leadership Institutes (DALIs) part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Conferences and Events:Conferences and Meetings:Transforming Institutions Conference 2021:Program:Poster Presentations:Poster Session A:Poster Session A-1
The APS Effective Practices for Physics Programs (EP3) project aims to help physics programs respond to challenges with a collection of knowledge, experience, and proven good practice disseminated via the EP3 ...

Connecting Project Principles and a Theory of Change to Practice: Departmental Action Teams part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Conferences and Events:Conferences and Meetings:Transforming Institutions Conference 2021:Program:Presentations:Session VI
Every change effort needs a solid foundation in order to achieve its desired impacts. We have found that project principles and a Theory of Change (TOC) provide such a foundation for the Departmental Action Team ...

Putting the Teaching Quality Framework Initiative into action: A case-study comparison of three departments engaged in transforming teaching evaluation part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Conferences and Events:Conferences and Meetings:Transforming Institutions Conference 2019:Program:Oral Presentations:Session D
The Teaching Quality Framework (TQF) Initiative seeks to create a process and tools for systemic transformation of departmental evaluation of teaching. As part of the Bay View Alliance and NSF funded TTEVAL ...