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Title: Developing the DELTA: Capturing Cultural Changes in Undergraduate Departments
Departments are now recognized as an important locus for sustainable change on university campuses. Making sustainable changes typically requires a shift in culture, but culture is complex and difficult to measure. For this reason, cultural changes are often studied using qualitative methods that provide rich, detailed data. However, this imposes barriers to measuring culture and studying change at scale (i.e., across many departments). To address this issue, we introduce the Departmental Education and Leadership Transformation Assessment (DELTA), a new survey aimed at capturing cultural changes in undergraduate departments. We describe the survey’s development and validation and provide suggestions for its utility for researchers and practitioners.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1626565
NSF-PAR ID:
10181415
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
CBE—Life Sciences Education
Volume:
19
Issue:
2
ISSN:
1931-7913
Page Range / eLocation ID:
ar15
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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