Community of Practice Evaluation and Learning
Amplify Evaluation co-led the evaluation and learning for Communities of Practice (CoP) focused on embedding sustainability into engineering curriculums across the United States. Utilizing emergent learning (4 Quadrant Partners). The evaluation and learning agenda helped to illuminate how CoPs facilitated knowledge-, skill-, and relationship-building among its members.
Community of Practice Products
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Publications
Amplify Evaluation collaborated with community and practice partners to write an academic article, which describes the outcomes of a community of practice to embed sustainability into engineering education
Mead, T., Pietsch, C., Matthew, V., Lipkin-Moore, S., Metzger, E., Avdeev, I. V., & Ruzycki, N. J. (2021). Leveraging a Community of Practice to Build Faculty Resilience and Support Innovations in Teaching during a Time of Crisis. Sustainability, 13(18), 10172.
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Presentations
Amplify Evaluation collaborated with community and practice partners to develop a paper presentation for the American Society of Engineering Education, which describes the ways faculty can learn from and evaluate their community of practice.
Matthew, V., Lipkin-Moore, S., Plumblee, J., Lavoine, N., Lucia, L., Selvi, E., ... & Arce-Trigatti, A. (2022, August). A Roadmap for the Design and Implementation of Communities of Practice for Faculty Development. In 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.
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Learning
Amplify Evaluation facilitated quarterly learning meetings for program staff to set hypotheses and extract learnings from the community of practice they facilitated. The learning was guided by 4 Quadrant Partners emergent learning technique.