1. Opening Doors to the Future Gateway Engineering Education Coalition www.gatewaycoalition.org Measuring Culture Change in Engineering Education Eli Fromm, Drexel University Jack McGourty, Columbia University ~ ~ ~ ASEE Annual Conference June 25-27, 2001 Albuquerque, NM

2. Opening Doors to the Future Gateway Engineering Education Coalition 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: nTo what degree are specific behaviors/practices considered the norm? nHow stable are these behaviors/practices over time? nTo what degree are these behaviors/practices prevalent across the organization?

3. Opening Doors to the Future Gateway Engineering Education Coalition Gateway Strategies Curriculum Professional Development Underrepresented Populations Instructional Technology Assessment Linking & Sharing Phase I Culture Change Product Process Phase II Innovate Develop +

4. Opening Doors to the Future Gateway Engineering Education Coalition Gateway Assessment Process The process of identifying, defining, measuring, and analyzing institutional and educational outcomes is one of the key drivers of culture change.

5. Opening Doors to the Future Gateway Engineering Education Coalition Coalition/ABET Connection Planning Outcomes Metric Forms Planning Templates Workbooks Survey Tools Support

6. Opening Doors to the Future Gateway Engineering Education Coalition Institutional Plan - Sample Page

7. Opening Doors to the Future Gateway Engineering Education Coalition 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

8. Opening Doors to the Future Gateway Engineering Education Coalition Selected Results - Faculty Behavior

9. Opening Doors to the Future Gateway Engineering Education Coalition Selected Results - Learning Environment

10. Opening Doors to the Future Gateway Engineering Education Coalition Selected Results - Student Outcomes

11. Opening Doors to the Future Gateway Engineering Education Coalition 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

12. Opening Doors to the Future Gateway Engineering Education Coalition 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.