Applying the Innovation Diffusion Model to SENCERizing the Curriculum: Has SENCER Crossed the Chasm?

摘要

For over ten years, faculty, staff and students have worked to develop SENCER courses across the country. The SENCER approach to science education reform is an innovation in science education. To understand the adoption of the SENCER approach by individual faculty on some campuses and into the mainstream on other campuses, models of innovation diffusion can be explored. In this chapter, the innovation diffusion model will be the framework used to explore SENCERizing the curriculum.