This chapter describes a process for assessing programmatic initiatives with broad-ranging goals with the use of a mixed-methods design. Using an example of a day-long teaching development conference, this chapter provides practitioners step-by-step guidance on how to implement this assessment process.

This chapter addresses the relationship between three different approaches to educational improvement--instructional development (ID), organizational development (OD), and faculty development (FD). These three approaches are related to each other using the concept of readiness for innovation, and a spiral relationship is postulated: an individual,…

Designed to provide the reader with in-depth examinations of several key aspects of instructional development, this book presents both descriptions of state-of-the-art developments and analyses of problems faced by the field. These reports are presented in 13 chapters written by 17 authors: (1) "The Relationship between Faculty Development (FD),…