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Workshop for Interdisciplinary and Inquiry Based Teaching of Calculus – September 29, 2012
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NSF-USF-STEP
TEAM
Dr. Kandethody Ramachandran Dr. Catherine BénéteauDr. Scott CampbellDr. Gordon FoxDr. Arcadii GrinshpanDr. Marcus McWatersDr. Jennifer Lewis
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MAJOR GOAL
Student success and Increase graduation rate in STEM fields and thus raising student achievement
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MAIN FOCUSImproving pass rate in Engineering
and Life Science Calculus
Three Major Components
Project based instruction Implementation of peer leading Tutoring lab called STEM Mart
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Project Based Instruction
Teach calculus through projects based on real life problems
a total of 830 projects have been developed
starting from 4 sections in Fall of 2008 we reached to total of 54 sections by end of Spring 2012
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Project Based Instruction
• Created an electronic journal Undergraduate journal of
mathematical modeling: one + two
• selected 58 projects are published
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Data results
an increase of over 25% in the passing rates for students who did the projects versus those who did not
Over all an Increased pass rates of over 10% for the sections that offer the project option
At least 5% decrease of the withdrawal rates.
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Effects
The mathematics application activities have led to the creation of Center for Industrial and
Interdisciplinary Mathematics.
Project bank will be a source for project based teaching
http://shell.cas.usf.edu/math/mug/projectindex.htm
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Peer LeadingIn peer leader program, selected students provide structured tutoring and serve as role models for other studentsstarting from 0 sections in Fall of 2008 it
reached to a total of more than 85 sections. developed a curriculum for Engineering and
Life Science Calculus 1
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Data results
Increased pass rates by more than 10%
12% decrease of withdrawal rates
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Effects
Got permanent funding from the USF for
22 Undergraduate Peer Leaders
4 graduate TAs every semester for Mathematics.
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STEM MartSTEM Mart is a one stop tutoring center for lower level STEM coursesOpened extended hours (M-Th., 10am-9pm,
F., 10am -4pm, and Sun., 1pm-5pm) in tutoring lab, STEM Mart.
About 40 undergraduate students serve as tutors for elementary level STEM courses
Starting Fall 08, a total of more than 3500 different students logging in more than 15,000 student visits were recorded.
Popular destination for calculus and physics students
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Data results
Increased passing rates by more than 20% in Calculus for students
Of the students visited 5 or more times, 82% got C or better
Tutoring in various basic subjects is now permanent part of student success at USF.
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Conclusion
Implementation of this multipronged approach that combines student projects, peer guided process learning and centralized tutoring support has shown significant results that will lead us to our ultimate goal of increased graduation rate.
The project methods are relatively easily transportable to other institutions.
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http://www.math.usf.edu/resources/step/
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PROGRAMTime Location
8:30am-9:00am ENB Hall of Flags Registration9:00am-9:15am ENB 118 Welcome
Dr. Paul Dosal
Vice Provost for Student Success
9:15am-9:50am ENB 118 Summary of the project
10:00am-11:00am ENB 109 Peer leading: Presentation, Workshop
11:00am-11:15am Break 11:15AM-12:15PM ENB 118 PROJECT OPTION —
HOW IT WORKS AT USF
12:30pm-1:30pm ENB 118 Lunch1:30pm-2:00pm ENB 118 STEM Mart/Tutoring2:00pm-3:00pm ENB 110 Poster session3:05pm-4:00pm ENB 118 Discussions
Evaluation
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STIPEND
$300.00 stipend will be mailed to participants who had registered.
Please make sure that you sign the paperwork that will be passed around during discussion time.
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THANK YOU
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SUGGESTIONS