Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Focus on Outcomes: Fostering Systemic Departmental Improvements
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Abstract
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.
This paper has been withdrawn.