Barriers to faculty pedagogical change: Lack of training, time, incentives, and...tensions with professional identity?

CBE Life Sciences Education

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 339-346

  Brownell, Sara E ^a   Tanner, Kimberly D ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; MENTAL STRESS; MOTIVATION; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; TEACHING; TIME; UNIVERSITY;

CAREER CHOICE; FACULTY; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; MOTIVATION; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TEACHING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84871352395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.12-09-0163     Document Type: Article

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