Gateway Engineering Education Coalition

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Gateway Engineering Education Coalition
- Drexel - Cooper - USC - Ohio State - Academic
Associates - Polytechnic - NJIT - Columbia

• Measuring Culture Change in Engineering Education
• Eli Fromm, Drexel University
• Jack McGourty, Columbia University
• ASEE Annual Conference
• June 25-27, 2001
• Albuquerque, NM

www.gatewaycoalition.org
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Educational Culture

• A collection of definable behaviors and practices
  that are commonly exhibited by staff, faculty,
  and students within an educational institution.
  Measures can answer the following questions
• To what degree are specific behaviors/practices
  considered the norm?
• How stable are these behaviors/practices over
  time?
• To what degree are these behaviors/practices
  prevalent across the organization?

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Gateway Strategies

• Curriculum
• Professional Development
• Underrepresented Populations
• Instructional Technology
• Assessment
• Linking Sharing

Innovate
Phase II
Phase I

Implement
Develop
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Gateway Assessment Process
The process of identifying, defining, measuring,
and analyzing institutional and educational
outcomes is one of the key drivers of culture
change.
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Coalition/ABET Connection
Planning
Outcomes
Support
Metric Forms Planning Templates Workbooks Sur
vey Tools
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Institutional Plan - Sample Page
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Institutional Metrics

• Collecting and monitoring over 40 discreet
  measures on institutional innovation and change
  across the Gateway six focus areas
• Illustrates changes in faculty behavior,
  classroom environment, and student outcomes
• Data gathered at institutional and coalition
  levels
• Snapshots at critical award years longitudinal
• Future award years projected

For more information and Gateway Results, visit
the Gateway Web Repository - www.gatewaycoalition
.org
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Selected Results - Faculty Behavior
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Selected Results - Learning Environment
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Selected Results - Student Outcomes
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Metric/Measurement Issues

• Consistent definitions/glossaries
• Working with local databases
• Varied institutional practices
• Lack of infrastructure and formal processes to
  collect data on a regular basis

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Some Changes Cannot be Measured!

• All our schools are now going through major
  curriculum/program reviews and revisions. No
  school has questioned the validity of the broad
  concepts embodied within the Gateway philosophy
  of restructured curriculum, educational
  methodologies, student centered outreach,
  instructional technologies, and assessment all
  representative of a significant educational
  culture change. Rather, the questions raised are
  ones of how to enhance those concepts. We take
  this to be a clear indication that
  institutionalization of the fundamental premises
  on which the Gateway educational revolution has
  been based is taking place and one indication of
  the program's success.