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Barriers to Change: Social Network Interactions Not Sufficient for Diffusion of High-Impact Practices in STEM Teaching

Educ. Sci. 2022, 12(8), 512; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12080512
by Tracie Reding 1, Christopher Moore 2,*, Julie A. Pelton 3 and Sarah Edwards 4
Reviewer 2:
Soheil Salha
Educ. Sci. 2022, 12(8), 512; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12080512
Submission received: 16 June 2022 / Revised: 13 July 2022 / Accepted: 22 July 2022 / Published: 26 July 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Higher Education: Improvements for a Better System)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This is an excellent research and presented well. I strongly recommend the following aspects considered and changed:

1. Title should reflect with HIP, TPI and social norm in terms of STEM education- make it catchy rather than simply focusing a relationship.

2. Before section 2.3 there is a need of a conceptual framework focused with key elements leading to HP1 & 2. This would provide a stronger picture of the research.

3. Before discussions it is better to provide a section of key findings in dot points and and some of the highlights, and this will make discussions reader friendly and logical.

Author Response

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Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors did a great effort to present the relationship between social interactions an HIPs, with advanced and strong statistics. Multiple improvements could be emerged to increase the quality of this manuscript.

-The authors used High impact practices (HIPs) and High impact teaching practices (HIPs). It is consistent to have one expression.

-In the introduction: authors could present STEM as learning strategy, a set of teaching activities and a philosophy of improvement.

-Table (1): Practices that Support Learning and Teaching. Teaching is likely to be added to the table title.

-As the study conducted among social science courses, it is worth noting to mention STEAM as STEAM is closer to social sciences more than STEM.

-The study focuses on interactions and this implies to support the study with qualitative approach as observation or an interview.

-More discussion are needed to clarify the relationship between interactions and HIPs.

-The authors are encouraged to write some limitations that may encountered them during the study. 

Author Response

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Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Dear authors

Thank you for your hard work and detailed response.

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