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Table 1 Information about teams and team member interviewees

From: Team-based instructional change in undergraduate STEM: characterizing effective faculty collaboration

Team or

Lifetime

Team

Number of

Goal

Diversity/demographics

Team members’

department

(years)

size

participants

 

of interviewees

pseudonyms

Physics

4

9

4

Revise and improve the

Race/ethnicity: 3 White,

Jack, Nick, Tanya,

    

introductory physics

1 Middle Eastern — Gender:

Hannah

    

courses for life science majors.

2 women, 2 men — Rank: 2 tenured/

 
     

tenure-track faculty, 1 graduate

 
     

student, and 1 teaching and

 
     

learning administrator.

 

Material Science

4

9

6

Embody computation within

Race/ethnicity: 6 White. — Gender:

Austin, George, Mary,

    

required undergraduate courses in

2 women and four men. — Rank: 6

Jason, Marcos, Anne

    

the course sequence.

tenured/tenure-track faculty.

 

Biology

3

9

8

Revise the series of

Race/ethnicity: 5 White, 2 Asian,

Vicky, Brandy, Cassandra,

    

seven introductory biology courses.

and 1 biracial. — Gender: 3 women

Drek, Richard, Geoffrey,

     

and 4 men. — Rank: 4 tenured/tenure-track

Andrea, Scott

     

faculty, 1 non-tenure-track faculty,

 
     

1 graduate student, 1 postdoctoral researcher,

 
     

and 1 tenure-track

 
     

undergraduate experience coordinator.

 

Engineering

6

8-10

5

Add active learning elements

Race/ethnicity: 2 White, 1 Asian,

Marcos, Gabriel, Allison,

    

into the large introductory course

and 1 Hispanic/Latino. — Gender:

Daniel, Chris, (Thanos),

    

to increase student engagement.

1 woman and 3 men. — Rank:

(Ross)

     

3 tenured/tenure-track faculty,

 
     

and 1 postdoctoral researcher (1 interviewee

 
     

did not compete the survey).

 
  1. This is a description of the four teams that are included in this paper. Sample size refers to the number of interviewees from each team. The demographic information refers only to the interviewees. This information was obtained from a short survey sent immediately after each interview.