TABLE 2.

Themes and theme descriptions used to characterize personas

Theme	Theme description: When instructors expressed …
Knowledge of students	What they know and aim to know about their students, including conceptions, tendencies, habits, or backgrounds
Teaching values	What is important to them as teachers and what they want students to get out of the classroom and college experience
Approaches to innovations	An attitude or opinion regarding AACR questions and other innovative teaching practices
Perceived barriersa	Knowledge about local, departmental, or institutional norms and customs that they view as barriers
Desired PD outcomesa	What they want to know to facilitate their teaching

^aPerceived barriers and desired PD outcomes were not included in the cluster analysis (see Cluster Analysis section) to determine the membership of personas but were used to help further characterize personas afterward.