Improving Student Outcomes in Mathematics: What Do We Know? What Can We (Reasonably) Do?

Speaker

  • Wendy Smith (University of Nebraska)

Details

Although education research has many implications for improving student outcomes in mathematics, more work is needed to successfully and sustainably translate research findings into practice. This interactive presentation will focus on what we know as a field about effective and efficient ways to improve student outcomes in mathematics, and what that could or should mean for mathematics departments. Improving student outcomes sustainably involves not just making individual, isolated changes, but whole departments investing in addressing complex systems. This presentation will seek to inspire attendees with next steps to address equitable teaching and learning mathematics in their local contexts.

Seminar Info
Other Resources


Infusing Active Learning in Precalculus and Calculus, Primus 31 (2021) special issue

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/upri20/31/3-5?nav=tocList

Transformational Change Efforts, AMS book reporting on SEMINAL findings

https://bookstore.ams.org/mbk-138/?_zs=L5oRC1&_zl=rSpG6


Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN) https://ascnhighered.org/index.html 

ASCN dashboard

https://ascnhighered.org/ASCN/change_dashboard/index.html

ASCN publications

https://ascnhighered.org/ASCN/publications.html

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https://teachingforprowess.wordpress.com/

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https://www.aacu.org/publication/increasing-student-success-in-stem-a-guide-to-systemic-institutional-change

https://www.aacu.org/publications-research/publications/increasing-student-success-stem-guide-systemic-institutional

COMMIT Network https://www.comathinquiry.org/  

MAA CONNECT https://connect.maa.org/home   

AMATYC Communities https://my.amatyc.org/communities/allcommunities