Editing Decoding Transitions to College (section)

== Evidence of Success ==

==== Testimony from Participants ====
When asked about the impact of the program at a follow-up meeting, fellows from the program provided enthusiastic descriptions of how participation in the program had transformed their teaching. The high school teachers said that the encounter with university faculty had provided them with a much clearer idea of what they needed to do to prepare their students for college, and the Indiana University teachers indicated that they had a much better notion of what their students had been exposed to before they arrived on campus. Both groups stressed the importance of participating in the Decoding interviews with teachers both within and outside their disciplines. But it was also clear that the program had also had a deeper and more pervasive effect on many of the teachers.  A college biology teacher said that ”Decoding has really transformed my teaching in a way that I didn't expect. Now it's like you see bottlenecks everywhere. You can't stop seeing it.” A high school chemistry teacher said that he now thinks “more about what I haven’t told the kids.”  And an English professor reported “that “being in the workshop holistically changed my approach .. [I am] making things more transparent.”

The teachers' descriptions of the impact of the program may be experienced directly in two videos that can be accessed below:

* "[https://youtu.be/uTBQkycMc3g Decoding Beyond the University]" -- a July 2025 program in the international Decoding the Disciplines webinar series in which four high school teachers describe how the program transformed their teaching in a panel discussion moderated by one of the college fellows. (Thanks to Miriam Barnat of the University of Applied Sciences in Aachen for making this presentation possible)
* Excerpts from a panel at the September 2025 FALCON Conference in which teachers describe how the  Decoding Transitions to College Project helped them reshape introductory college courses in biology and chemistry.(Thanks to FALCON and FACET for making these videos available.)
** [https://youtu.be/U95d1roBXyk Excerpts on the application of Decoding in a biology course]
** [https://youtu.be/uaGhfFF3i2A Excerpts on the application of Decoding in a chemistry course]