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?
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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
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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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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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Common Exam as Inquiry
While one would think that mathematics would be less susceptible to the problem of coordination and grade variability (it is, afte all, more “objective” than reading and composition), that turns out not to be the case. Math teachers also vary … Continue reading
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