| The purpose of this single-case study was to explore and describe community college faculty members' concerns about and use of the Principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL; CAST, 2011) as a mechanism for embedding learning support in their instruction to meet the needs of a broad range of students. The UDL model is built upon three Principles: (a) provide multiple means of representation, (b) provide multiple means of action and expression, and (c) provide multiple means of engagement. Each Principle is supported by three Guidelines.;The theoretical underpinning for this study is derived from the Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) developed by Hall and Hord (2010). This evidence-based model is used to describe, measure, and explain the change process as experienced by individuals and groups of individuals (Anderson, 1997). In this study, the innovation that faculty members experienced was incorporating the Principles of UDL (CAST, 2011) as a means of embedding learning support in college-level courses.;Two methods of data collection were employed in this study. First, full- and part-time community college instructors who taught at least one course in the Spring 2014 semester were recruited to complete a previously used researcher-developed Internet-based questionnaire (Wilken, 2011). Thirty-eight faculty members completed the questionnaire that queried respondents about their Stage of Concern (SoC; Hall & Hord, 2010) with implementing UDL (CAST, 2011) and their Level of Use (LoU; Hall & Hord, 2010) of UDL in their instruction. Second, a subset of five faculty members were recruited to participate in follow-up 30-minute personal interview. The information from the follow-up personal interviews was used to expand and complement the survey data.;The majority of study participants reported their SoC (Hall & Hord, 2010) for incorporating the UDL Principles (CAST, 2011) as Informational or Collaboration. Additionally, the majority of faculty members identified their LoU (Hall & Hord, 2010) for incorporating the UDL Principles as Routine or Refinement. All interviewees identified their LoU for incorporating the UDL Principles in their instruction as Refinement. |
