Comments on: Spreading great ideas in teaching: How does change happen? http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2009/03/17/how-does-change-happen-attributes-of-innovation-and-rates-of-adoption/ explorations and inspirations... in how we learn science Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:52:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sciencegeekgirl http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2009/03/17/how-does-change-happen-attributes-of-innovation-and-rates-of-adoption/comment-page-1/#comment-1148 sciencegeekgirl Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:12:26 +0000 http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/?p=574#comment-1148 Here is a blog post from Derek Bruff about a recent article applying Rogers' concepts of diffusion of innovations to clicker use! http://derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs/?p=143 Here is a blog post from Derek Bruff about a recent article applying Rogers’ concepts of diffusion of innovations to clicker use!

http://derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs/?p=143

]]> By: sciencegeekgirl http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2009/03/17/how-does-change-happen-attributes-of-innovation-and-rates-of-adoption/comment-page-1/#comment-1147 sciencegeekgirl Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:57:47 +0000 http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/?p=574#comment-1147 <blockquote><p> “Revitalizing Undergraduate Science: Why Some Things Work and Most Don’t” by Sheila Tobias</p> </blockquote> Yes - that is a wonderful book! I'll put a link to it in the post.

“Revitalizing Undergraduate Science: Why Some Things Work and Most Don’t” by Sheila Tobias

Yes – that is a wonderful book! I’ll put a link to it in the post.

]]> By: Robert http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2009/03/17/how-does-change-happen-attributes-of-innovation-and-rates-of-adoption/comment-page-1/#comment-1146 Robert Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:16:11 +0000 http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/?p=574#comment-1146 Another reference that I have found useful is the book "Revitalizing Undergraduate Science: Why Some Things Work and Most Don't" by Sheila Tobias, Research Corporation, 1992. Yes, 1992 - back when Mazur was doing peer instruction via show-of-hands (Chapter 8.) The basic structural issues have not changed very much since then. Another reference that I have found useful is the book “Revitalizing Undergraduate Science: Why Some Things Work and Most Don’t” by Sheila Tobias, Research Corporation, 1992. Yes, 1992 – back when Mazur was doing peer instruction via show-of-hands (Chapter 8.) The basic structural issues have not changed very much since then.

]]> By: sciencegeekgirl http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2009/03/17/how-does-change-happen-attributes-of-innovation-and-rates-of-adoption/comment-page-1/#comment-1137 sciencegeekgirl Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:51:09 +0000 http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/?p=574#comment-1137 <blockquote><p>You might want to check out this article: Barriers to the use of research-based instructional strategies: The influence of both individual and situational characteristics</p> </blockquote> Thanks for the direct link and comments, Maria! That article was one of the ones I was directing people to in the reference to Henderson and Dancy's work in the post. It's very interesting stuff. Please, feel free to share any of the highlights from your own dissertation (or if you'd like to share a substantial chunk, I welcome guest bloggers!)

You might want to check out this article: Barriers to the use of research-based instructional strategies: The influence of both individual and situational characteristics

Thanks for the direct link and comments, Maria! That article was one of the ones I was directing people to in the reference to Henderson and Dancy’s work in the post. It’s very interesting stuff. Please, feel free to share any of the highlights from your own dissertation (or if you’d like to share a substantial chunk, I welcome guest bloggers!)

]]> By: Maria H. Andersen http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2009/03/17/how-does-change-happen-attributes-of-innovation-and-rates-of-adoption/comment-page-1/#comment-1136 Maria H. Andersen Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:04:22 +0000 http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/?p=574#comment-1136 You might want to check out this article: Barriers to the use of research-based instructional strategies: The influence of both individual and situational characteristics The article focuses on the Physics Education community, but is based on Innovations Theory and is good research applicable to all sciences (and, I think, math too). My dissertation topic is on diffusion of innovations in mathematics (just re-read Rogers' tome myself). Find it here: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~chenders/Publications/HendersonPRST2007Barriers.pdf You might want to check out this article: Barriers to the use of research-based instructional strategies: The influence of both individual and situational characteristics

The article focuses on the Physics Education community, but is based on Innovations Theory and is good research applicable to all sciences (and, I think, math too).

My dissertation topic is on diffusion of innovations in mathematics (just re-read Rogers’ tome myself).

Find it here: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~chenders/Publications/HendersonPRST2007Barriers.pdf

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