Developed by Carl Wieman and Sarah Gilbert
| Purpose | To characterize the extent of use of research-based teaching practices in undergraduate natural and social sciences "lecture" courses. |
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| Format | Multiple-response, Short answer |
| Duration | 10 min |
| Focus | Teaching (Course information provided, Supporting materials provided, In-class features and activities, Assignments, Feedback and testing, Training and guidance of TAs, Collaboration in teaching, Other) |
| Level | Upper-level, Intermediate, Intro college |
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Bronze ValidationThis is the third highest level of research validation, corresponding to at least 3 of the validation categories below.
Research Validation Summary
Based on Research Into:
- Student thinking
Studied Using:
- Student interviews
- Expert review
- Appropriate statistical analysis
Research Conducted:
- At multiple institutions
- By multiple research groups
- Peer-reviewed publication
The PIPS was tested with several hundred faculty members at UBC and refined over a 6-year period. It was reviewed by experts in college science teaching, science education specialists, and Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative departmental directors. Open-ended responses to "other" categories were used to check instructors' interpretations of the questions and add options. For selected classes, observers of the classes were asked to evaluate the responses given by instructors.
References
- K. M. Alsharif and N. M. Alamri, Using Teaching Practices Inventory to Evaluate Mathematics Faculty Teaching Practices in Higher Education, International Journal of Instruction, 13 (1), (2020).
- A. A. Olsen, K. A. Morbitzer, S. Zambrano, J. M. Zeeman, A. M. Persky, A. Bush, and J. E. McLaughlin, Development and implementation of a formative instructional coaching program using the Teaching Practices Inventory within a health professions program, BMC Med Educ 22 (1) 554 (2022).
- C. Wieman, A Better Way to Evaluate Undergraduate Teaching, Change: Mag. Higher Learn. 47 (1), 6 (2015).
- C. Wieman and S. Gilbert, The Teaching Practices Inventory: A New Tool for Characterizing College and University Teaching in Mathematics and Science, CBE Life. Sci. Educ. 13 (3), 552 (2014).
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| Typical Results |
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The figure below shows the histograms of the “extent of use of research-based teaching practices (ETP)” scores for the five departments at UBC (from Wieman and Gilbert 2017):
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The latest version of the TPI, released in 2018, is version 3. Version 1 was released in October 2014 and version 2 was released in January 2015.
