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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