Inclusive and Equitable Teaching Project Published in Innovative Higher Education

Inclusive and Equitable Teaching Project Published in Innovative Higher Education

TLL staffers Drs. Raechel Soicher, Amanda Baker and Ruthann Thomas recently published a their work on inclusive and equitable teaching in Innovative High Education. The article, A Mixed-Methods Research Design to Advance Inclusive and Equitable Teaching describes their recent work that synthesizes data across multiple sources (students, instructors, and course syllabi) and courses within the department. This synthesis can provide tailored recommendations to departments about how to advance inclusive and equitable pedagogy. The study illustrates the ways in which centering departments can account for contextual factors that influence instructors’ teaching practices—and subsequently students’ learning experiences and outcomes— across multiple courses within a program or department.

Inclusive and Equitable Teaching project (IE-Teach) is an ongoing effort from the Teaching + Learning Lab to collect survey data from students, analyze course syllabi, and interview instructors to get a multidimensional perspective on inclusive and equitable teaching. The goal of the project is to motivate, inform, and tailor teaching development to the varied needs of academic departments.

If you’d like to learn more about the project, including how to have your department participate, please email our team at: ie-teaching@mit.edu.

— Melissa Mangino, TLL