"Focus on Outcomes: Fostering Systemic Departmental Improvements" by Daniel L. Reinholz, Mary E. Pilgrim et al.

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

 

Date of this Version

Winter 2021

Document Type

Article

Citation

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (winter 2021) 40(2): 122-151

doi: 10.3998/tia.154

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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.

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