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Alice Olmstead
Physics
Texas State University-San Marcos
Alice Olmstead is an Assistant Professor of Physics and the programmatic co-lead of the STEM Communities Project at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. Her primary research expertise is on strategies that can help STEM faculty to improve their teaching and lead to long-term change. You can learn more about the research and programmatic work she is engaged in at: https://www.cose.txst.edu/beyond-the-classroom/stem-communities.html, https://instructionalchangeteams.weebly.com/, and https://txstper.wp.txstate.edu/.
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A Survey Tool to Assess Team Collaboration Around Instructional Change part of Transforming Institutions Conference 2023:Program:Presentations:Session B
Instructional change teams are increasingly common in efforts to improve undergraduate STEM instruction. Such teams include three or more members who may have different perspectives and backgrounds. When they are ...
Opportunities and challenges of change efforts involving faculty-student instructional teams part of Transforming Institutions Conference 2023:Program:Workshops
We have been implementing a 5-year initiative called the "STEM Communities Project" (NSF #1928696) at Texas State University, a large, diverse Hispanic-Serving Institution in central Texas. Through this ...
Four Categories of Change Strategies for Undergraduate STEM part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Change Theories:Change Theories Collection
Rather than being a change theory, the four categories are a framework or typology for organizing different approaches to achieving change.