FIN Commons- Parachutes and Ladders X: Celebrating Student Engagement Save the Date for Spring 2011
- FIN Conference Celebration March 4-5, 2011
- FIN goes to Student Success 2010
- Exploring Routines for Instruction
- Train-the-trainer: Industry2Classroom Teacher Preperation Pipeline
- Why the Strengthening Student Success Conference Leads from Inquiry to Action
- Student Run Conference Supported by FIN
- FIN Team Regional Meet-Ups
- The Case for Acceleration in Developmental English and Math
- The Space In Between– What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Category Archives: Developing Questions
Using Faculty Portfolios in a Faculty Inquiry Group
Faculty Inquiry at Cerritos College (Frank Mixson and Jan Connal) As part of the Cerritos College Faculty Inquiry project (SPECC), participating faculty began a process of thinking deeply about their teaching practices within a selected developmental class. Throughout the semester, … Continue reading
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Learning about Student Learning from Community Colleges
A Carnegie Perspectives repost By Pat Hutchings and Lee Shulman It’s hard to find a campus in these days of number crunching and accountability that doesn’t have some kind of office of institutional research. These offices vary a lot, with … Continue reading
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Creating Windows on Learning
A Carnegie Perspectives repost By Molly Breen Every year hundreds of thousands of students begin their higher education in community colleges. Of course, these institutions also bring in large numbers of new faculty. For both groups, students and faculty alike, … Continue reading
A Mathematician's Proposal
A Carnegie Perspectives repost Michael C. Burke (College of San Mateo; Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Foundation) In Mathematics and Democracy, Lynn Arthur Steen describes quantitative literacy as “a habit of mind, an approach to problems that employs and enhances both statistics … Continue reading
Faculty Inquiry Groups
Yu-Chung Chang (Pasadena), “No Longer Lost in Translation: How Yu-Chung Helps Her Students Understand (and Love) Word Problems” Yu-Chung says: I started a faculty Inquiry Group (FIG) to investigate why so many math faculty find Intermediate Algebra onerous to teach. … Continue reading