This work has thus identified the critical need to carefully characterize STEM faculty's departmental environment and conceptions about teaching before engaging in instructional reform efforts, and to adapt reform activities to account for these factors.
Instructors often adapt reform, and often, these changes are in the direction of traditional instruction (Dancy and Henderson [2010]; Henderson [2005], [2008]; Henderson and Dancy [2009a]; Henderson and Dancy [2009b]).
This model does not acknowledge the expertise of adopting faculty, who rarely want to use reforms as designed and may adapt reforms back toward traditional instruction (Hutchinson and Huberman [1994]; Henderson and Dancy [2008]).
The campaign for mayor became the test case for how a "how a state that is reform-averse adapts to reform," said Cindi Canary, executive director of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, a nonprofit based in Chicago that helped draft the law.
Shambaugh said the Chinese Communist party used to believe that the Soviet Union's collapse meant it had to adapt and reform, to become dynamic and responsive.
Although Erdogan kowtowed to anti-Americanism in the run-up to the Iraq war, when he refused to allow U.S. troops access to invade from the north, he is cementing ties with the West and adapting economic reforms consonant with Western practices.
However, culture is not static but is in constant flux, adapting and reforming.
Using the results of Brewe et al. (2009, 2010) and Sawtelle et al. (2010), we argue that the UMI framework of UMI-Physics should be used to adapt and reform undergraduate biology courses.
I thought Mr. Greenspan could have been more helpful in guiding Congress to adapt sensible reforms recently.
In recent days, his government has followed up with a series of social reforms, adapting old laws to the liberal mores of today's Spain.
