Topic Group: Fostering Engagement in the Classroom
Circle Contact: Sergiy Koshkin (Assistant Professor, Mathematics & Statistics)
Circle Contact Info:
koshkins@uhd.edu, 713-226-5567
Additional Members: Volodymyr Hrynkiv, Arati Pati, Ryan Pepper, Tim Redl, Plamen Simeonov, Jeong-Mi Yoon
Circle Description:
We introduced preview and pre-testing of prerequisite skills early into the course with follow-up engagement measures for students who perform poorly, developed an online homework master course, calculus resources webpage, and created a common final exam component. The outcomes were surveyed based on assessment of itemized data from the common component of the final exam, the entire final exam, course grades, and student self-assessment of learning gains. This data gave us unique insight into influence of different elements of the course on its outcomes, in performance and student perspective, measure outcomes more uniformly, try new approaches and see if they worked, and develop revisions to improve the course. They include moving integration to Calculus 2, expanding the common component of the final exam, continuing prerequisite reviews and final review sheets, utilizing supplemental instructors for recitation type sessions, and making online homework explicitly influence grades.
Circle Artifact(s):
teaching-circle-calc-artifact.pdf