FIN Commons- The Case for Acceleration in Developmental English and Math
- The Space In Between– What’s Love Got to Do With It?
- Umoja VI: Students Teaching and Teachers Learning
- Think Aloud Videos of Art Course Students
- Parachutes and Ladders IX: Faculty Inquiry and Student Learning
- Student Co-Inquirers and the Observation Protocol
- Intersecting Literacies: What Happened At the Working Conference
- CTE EVENT–May 7, 2010
- Mt. SAC Inquiry Event–April 23, 2010
- Many Eyes: A Data Representation Tool
Tag Archives: basic skills
Pipeline or Pipedream: Another Way to Think about Basic Skills
A Carnegie Perspectives repost By Rose Asera If I asked you—as an educated adult—what you remember about learning to read or to do basic arithmetic, you might recall some fleeting images: being read to by a parent or studying a … Continue reading
The Case for Common Examinations
A Carnegie Perspectives repost Lloyd Bond, Senior Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching The notion that all students who take the same course at a given college should take common examinations has been around for a long time. … Continue reading
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Common Exams as Prompts for Improvement
Glendale Community College’s mathematics program, in 2000, instituted a common final examination for all sections of pre-collegiate algebra. The department produces tabularized information after each examination in order to show, among other things, the dropout rate and mean GPA for … Continue reading
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Using Institutional Data to Guide Inquiry
What has also become clear through SPECC’s exploration of FIGs is the power of viewing classroom data through the lens of larger trends and patterns. Most campuses have a good deal of information available at the institutional level: data about … Continue reading
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Student Interviews on the Effectiveness of a Method
Students approach the math textbook as little more than an (extremely expensive) problem set, expecting to get all of the information they need to prepare for tests simply by attending lecture. A typical college math course requires a great deal … Continue reading
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