Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
November 2018
Publication Title
Reinvention Collaborative
Disciplines
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Science and Mathematics Education
Abstract
Fostering sustainable improvements in undergraduate education remains a formidable challenge. To address this challenge, our team has developed the Departmental Action Team (DAT) model. DATs are small working groups of faculty, students, and staff, that work collaboratively to envision, plan, develop, and build sustainable structures in their department. To support the uptake of such structures, DATs collect and analyze data to reflect on the root causes of an issue, which they use to shift beliefs, values, and practices within their context. This paper provides a five-year status report on the DAT project. We describe the history of the model, its evolution over time, and its impact on a variety of departments.
Recommended Citation
Daniel Reinholz, Mary Pilgrim, Karen Falkenberg, Courtney Ngai, Gina Quan, Sarah Wise, Chris Geanious, Joel Corbo, and Noah Finkelstein. "Departmental Action Teams: A five-year update on a model for sustainable change" Reinvention Collaborative (2018).
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Comments
This article was originally presented at the 2018 Reinvention Collaborative and can also be found online at this link.