Focus on Outcomes: Fostering Systemic Departmental Improvements
This article describes how a focus on outcomes can be a tool for guiding systemic change. By focusing on positive outcomes to be achieved, a group can guide its collective efforts toward an ideal future rather than becoming fixated on individual problems to solve. While th...
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Michigan Publishing Services
2021-12-01
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| Series: | To Improve the Academy |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/tia/article/id/154/ |
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| Summary: | This article describes how a focus on outcomes can be a tool for guiding systemic change. By focusing on positive outcomes to be achieved, a group can guide its collective efforts toward an ideal future rather than becoming fixated on individual problems to solve. While there is support for an outcome-guided approach in the literature on individual and organizational change, this approach has not been used extensively to support department-level changes in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. |
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| ISSN: | 2334-4822 |