Four categories of change strategies for transforming undergraduate instruction
@inproceedings{Henderson2012FourCO, title={Four categories of change strategies for transforming undergraduate instruction}, author={Charles Henderson and Andrea L. Beach and Noah D. Finkelstein}, year={2012} }
Although decades of research have identified effective instructional practices for improving student learning in college and university courses, these practices are not widely implemented. Scholars in several distinct fields are interested in promoting these practices and have engaged in research on pedagogical change. This chapter presents the initial results of a comprehensive literature review. The authors undertook an examination of 130 randomly chosen journal articles from a set of 295…
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