A Survey of Undergraduate Programs in the Mathematical and Statistical Sciences in the United States and the Publication of a Statistical Abstract of the Results

这个为期三年的项目，由会议委员会的数学科学（CBMS）的认可，将是第八次CBMS调查本科数学教育在美国。 与过去几年一样，调查将报告本科数学课程，招生和人事问题，创建一个其他任何地方都无法获得的信息的纵向数据库。 这些调查的出版物帮助政府和学术管理者做出资源分配的决定，帮助数学界理解它所面临的课程和人事问题，并作为几乎每一份关于数学科学界的国家报告的数据来源。S.二年制和四年制院校的数学科学系（广义）。 微积分改革的影响、数学系的统计教学以及K-12数学教师的职前教育可能是特别关注的领域。与早期调查相比的变化将包括更加重视本科统计教育、加强两年制和四年制大学问卷之间的平行性、利用大学统计实验室对调查数据进行分析，并向联邦决策者更广泛地传播最后报告。 整个报告将通过互联网以电子方式分发。

This three-year project, endorsed by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS), will be the eighth CBMS survey of undergraduate mathematics education in the United States. As in past years, the survey will report on curricular, enrollment, and personnel issues in undergraduate mathematics, creating a longitudinal data base of information not available anywhere else. Publications from these surveys have assisted governmental and academic administrators as they make resource allocation decisions, have assisted the mathematical community in understanding the curricular and personnel problems that it faces, and have served as a data source for almost every national report on the mathematical sciences community.CBMS2000, as the survey is called, will include more than 600 of the 2,500 U. S. departments of mathematical sciences (broadly defined) in two-and four-year institutions. The impact of calculus reform, the teaching of statistics in mathematics departments, and the pre-service education of K-12 mathematics teachers are likely to be among special focus areas.Changes from earlier surveys will include a greater emphasis on undergraduate statistical education, enhanced parellelism between the two-year and four-year college questionnaires, the use of a university statistical laboratory to carry out the analysis of survey data, and wider dissemination of the final report to federal decisionmakers. The entire report will be made available for electronic dissemination through the internet.