{"id":14738,"date":"2024-06-17T17:48:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T17:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/impact\/?page_id=14738"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:59:44","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/impact\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t\"IMPACT\n\t\t

\n\t\t\tAbout IMPACT\n\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t

Learn about our history and our framework.<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t\tProgram History\n\t\t\t\tTheoretical Framework\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProgram History\n\t\t\t\t

Launched by the Office of the Provost in 2011 and named as a Purdue Moves initiative by the Office of the President in 2013, IMPACT is a large, collaborative program serving Purdue faculty and staff at West Lafayette and Indianapolis. The team has run 28 IMPACT Semester cohorts since 2011 and 6 IMPACT Week cohorts, a condensed, remote IMPACT experience launched in 2022.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

IMPACT was awarded a First in the World grant from the United States Department of Education entitled Success through Transformative Education and Active Mentoring (STEAM).\u00a0 Through the use of experimental and control sections, this project aimed to empirically demonstrate that a more student-centered learning environment leads to benefits such as greater learning, higher grades, and higher rates of student retention in the major and the university.<\/p>\n

IMPACT was a large influence on the creation of the Wimeth Active Learning Center<\/a> (WALC) in 2017, providing faculty and students with 27 active learning classrooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTheoretical Framework\n\t\t\t\t

The IMPACT program is guided by a strong theoretical framework, which has been validated and used in several research projects for the past 40 years.<\/p>\n

Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985; Ryan & Deci, 2017) is a motivational theory that posits the existence of three basic psychological needs, which when fulfilled, contribute to the creation of a student-centered, autonomy-supportive learning environment.<\/p>\n

The creation of a student-centered, autonomy-supportive learning environment fosters student engagement and student competence, and an increased attainment of course-specific learning outcomes, degree completion, retention, and graduation rates.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"_JAU6726\"\n\t\t

Autonomy<\/h3>\n\t\t\t

The feelings of volition and choice; endorsement of behavior, ownership of the learning process.<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t

Competence<\/h3>\n\t\t\t

The extent to which students believe they have mastered content material or are able to perform academically.<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t

Relatedness<\/h3>\n\t\t\t

The need to feel belongingness and connectedness with others and the material presented in class, also termed relevance.<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEngage with IMPACT\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApply Now\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n

\n\t\tOutcomes, Recognition, and Scholarship \n\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tOver\n\t\t

700<\/h3>\n\t\t\t

instructor participants<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tOver\n\t\t

665<\/h3>\n\t\t\t

courses transformed<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\"Impact\n\t\t

100%<\/h3>\n\t\t\t

of colleges at Purdue have participated in IMPACT<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t\tOver\n\t\t

90%<\/h3>\n\t\t\t

of undergraduates take an IMPACT course during their time at Purdue<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t\tOver\n\t\t

80%<\/h3>\n\t\t\t

of students rate their IMPACT course as highly student-centered<\/p>\t\t\n\t

IMPACT has gained national notoriety through recent publications and has received interest near and far from instructors and universities wanting to participate, collaborate, and mimic the effectiveness of the program model.<\/p>\n

The IMPACT program was chosen as a 2018 Innovator<\/a> in the Chronicle of Higher Education and has been featured by the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)<\/a> and Change Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Years of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) publications have come out of IMPACT, from the faculty, staff, and researchers involved. Please learn more from the archives below. <\/p>\n\t\n\t\t\t\tImpact Annual Reports\n\t\t\t\t\tPurdue e-Pubs\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\n\t\t\t\tImpact Scholarship (In Progress)\n\t\t\t\t\tof Teaching and Learning e-Pubs\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\n\t\t\t\tImpact Fellows\n\t\t\t\t\t(Purdue VPN + Login Required)\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t

\n\t\t\tIMPACT Team\n\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t

The IMPACT program is an integrated, institutional effort supported by the collaboration of faculty and staff across multiple units at Purdue.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\n

\n\t\tThe IMPACT Management and Support Teams are comprised of faculty and staff from:\n\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCenter for Instructional Excellence\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPurdue University Online\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLibraries and School of Information Studies \n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n

\n\t\tInstitutional support and evaluation is provided from:\n\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tInstitutional Data
Analytics and Assessment (IDA+A)\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Evaluation and Learning
Research Center (ELRC)\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOffices of the President
and the Provost\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t

IMPACT is managed by Allison Russell<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tContact\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t

News & Events<\/h2>\n\t\t

For more teaching and learning events, check out the Innovative Learning calendar.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn More\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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