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: Christopher Geanious, Daniel L Reinholz, Joel Christopher Corbo, Karen Falkenberg, Mary E Pilgrim, Sarah B. Wise
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Michigan Publishing Services 2021-12-01
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.
ISSN:2334-4822