Departmental
Action Team Project

This is a list of all of the academic publications associated with the DAT Project. Most of these are freely available; for those that aren't, please feel free to get in contact with us if you'd like a copy, and we'll see what we can do. For more informal publications (e.g., blog posts), visit our web resources page.

Books

C. Ngai, J. C. Corbo, K. L. Falkenberg, C. Geanious, A. Pawlak, M. E. Pilgrim, G. M. Quan, D. L. Reinholz, C. Smith, and S. B. Wise. Facilitating Change in Higher Education: The Departmental Action Team Model. Glitter Cannon Press (2020).

Book Chapters

C. Ngai, J. C. Corbo, G. M. Quan, K. Falkenberg, C. Geanious, A. Pawlak, M. E. Pilgrim, D. L. Reinholz, C. Smith, and S. Wise. Developing the DAT Theory of Change. In K. White, A. Beach, N. Finkelstein, C. Henderson, S. Simkins, L. Slakey, M. Stains, G. Weaver, and L. Whitehead (Eds.). Transforming Institutions: Accelerating Systemic Change in Higher Education. Pressbooks (2020).

D. L. Reinholz, J. C. Corbo, M. H. Dancy, S. Deetz, and N. Finkelstein. Towards a model of systemic change in university STEM education, in Transforming Institutions: Undergraduate STEM Education for the 21st Century, edited by G. C. Weaver, W. D. Burgess, A. L. Childress, and L. Slakey (Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, IN, 2015).

Peer-Reviewed Publications

C. Ngai, M. E. Pilgrim, D. L. Reinholz, K. Falkenberg, C. Geanious, J. C. Corbo, S. B. Wise, C. Smith, A. Stone-Johnstone. Guiding principles for change in undergraduate education: An analysis of a departmental team's change effort. Physical Review Physics Education Research 19, 020107 (2023).

S. B. Wise, C. Ngai, J. C. Corbo, M. A. Gammon, J. K. Rivard, & C. E. Smith. Toward institutionalizing successful innovations in the Academy. To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development 41 (1) (2022).

D. L. Reinholz, M. E. Pilgrim, A. Stone-Johnstone, K. Falkenberg, C. Geanious, C. Ngai, J. C. Corbo, & S. B. Wise. Focus on outcomes: Fostering systemic departmental improvements. To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development 40 (2) (2021).

G. M. Quan, J. C. Corbo, S. Wise, & C. Ngai. Unpacking challenges in student-faculty partnerships on Departmental Action Teams, in Physics Education Research Conference 2021 (Virtual, 2021).

C. Ngai, M. E. Pilgrim, D. L. Reinholz, J. C. Corbo, and G. M. Quan. Developing the DELTA: Capturing cultural changes in undergraduate departments. CBE: Life Sciences Education 19 (2), 1–14 (2020).

D. L. Reinholz, A. Pawlak, C. Ngai, & M. Pilgrim. Departmental Action Teams: Empowering students as change agents in academic departments. International Journal for Students As Partners, 4 (1), 128-137 (2020).

G. M. Quan, J. C. Corbo, N. D. Finkelstein, A. Pawlak, K. Falkenberg, C. Geanious, C. Ngai, C. Smith, S. Wise, M. E. Pilgrim, and D. L. Reinholz. Designing for institutional transformation: Six principles for department-level interventions. Physical Review Physics Education Research 15, 010114 (2019).

D. L. Reinholz, C. Ngai, G. M. Quan, M. E. Pilgrim, J. C. Corbo, and N. Finkelstein. Fostering sustainable improvements in science education: An analysis through four frames. Science Education 103 (5), 1125–1150 (2019).

J. C. Corbo, G. M. Quan, K. Falkenberg, C. Geanious, C. Ngai, M. E. Pilgrim, D. L. Reinholz, and S. Wise. Externalizing the core principles of the Departmental Action Team (DAT) model, in Physics Education Research Conference 2018 (Washington, DC, 2018).

G. M. Quan, J. C. Corbo, C. Ngai, D. Reinholz, and M. E. Pilgrim. Research on university faculty member’s reasoning about how departments change, in Physics Education Research Conference 2018 (Washington, DC, 2018).

D. L. Reinholz, J. C. Corbo, M. H. Dancy, and N. Finkelstein. Departmental Action Teams: Supporting faculty learning through departmental change. Learning Communities Journal 9 (1) (2017).

K. Rainey, J. C. Corbo, D. L. Reinholz, and M. Betterton. Improving representation in physical sciences using a Departmental Action Team, in Physics Education Research Conference 2016 (Sacramento, CA, 2016).

J. C. Corbo, D. L. Reinholz, M. H. Dancy, S. Deetz, and N. Finkelstein. Framework for transforming departmental culture to support educational innovation. Physical Review Physics Education Research 12, 010113 (2016).

J. C. Corbo, D. L. Reinholz, M. H. Dancy, and N. Finkelstein. Departmental Action Teams: Empowering faculty to make sustainable change, in Physics Education Research Conference 2015 (College Park, MD, 2015).

Other Publications

D. L. Reinholz, M. E. Pilgrim, J. C. Corbo, and N. Finkelstein. Transforming undergraduate education from the middle out with Departmental Action Teams. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 51(5), 64-70 (2019).

D. L. Reinholz, M. E. Pilgrim, K. Falkenberg, C. Ngai, G. M. Quan, S. Wise, C. Geanious, J. C. Corbo, and N. Finkelstein. Departmental Action Teams: A five-year update on a model for sustainable change, in RC20/20(the 2018 Reinvention Collaborative Biennial National Conference digital volume)

© 2020, The DAT project members This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1626565. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.