Statewide Conference on the Redesign of Remedial Math Curriculum

该项目将满足国家对改善大学数学教学的需求，使更多的学生毕业后能够从事STEM领域的研究。作为第一步，本项目将组织一次会议，深入了解必修数学课程的实施情况。许多学校要求没有通过数学分班考试的学生在进入大学时补习非学分课程，从而推迟了他们的大学进步。另一种选择是在学生上大学水平的数学课程的同时，为他们提供必要的数学课程。相当多的研究表明，同修课程模式可以显著提高传统上数学不好的学生的成绩和保留率。该项目将通过召集路易斯安那社区和技术学院系统所有13个成员学院数学系的代表来探讨这一主题。在会议上，他们将从巴吞鲁日社区学院卡内基数学之路西区的专家那里学习如何实现必要的数学，这将促进为期两天的会议。会议有四个具体目标：探讨实施数学教学发展和必要模式的选择和趋势；支持机构团队建设和工作坊参与者之间的分享；促进参与院校数学补习课程的重新设计；并在参与高校的教职工和管理人员中传播共通模式。预计增加数学的共同条件模型将提高学生的毕业率，并增加追求STEM职业的学生的数量和多样性。该项目得到了“改善本科STEM教育：电子病历计划”的支持，该计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。本次会议与参与式学习轨道保持一致，该轨道支持有前途的实践和工具的创建、探索和实施。它还与机构和社区转型轨道保持一致，该轨道支持在高等教育机构和学科社区中转变和改善STEM教育的努力。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will serve the national need for improving college mathematics instruction so that more students graduate and can pursue STEM fields. As a first step, this project will organize a conference to gain insight into the implementation of corequisite mathematics courses. Many institutions require students who don’t pass mathematics placement tests when they enter college to take remedial, non-credit courses, thus delaying their college progress. An alternative is to provide students with corequisite mathematics courses while they take a college level mathematics course. Considerable research shows that the corequisite course model can significantly increase the achievement and retention of students who traditionally do not do well in mathematics. The project will explore this topic by convening representatives from the mathematics departments of all 13 member colleges in the Louisiana Community and Technical College System. At the conference, they will learn about implementing corequisite mathematics from experts at the Carnegie Math Pathways-West End at Baton Rouge Community College, which will facilitate the two-day conference. The Conference has four specific aims: explore options and trends in implementation of developmental and corequisite models for mathematics instruction; support institutional team building and sharing between the workshop participants; catalyze redesign of the remedial math curriculum at the participating colleges; and disseminate the corequisite model within the participating colleges' faculty and administrators. It is expected that increasing the corequisite model in mathematics will increase the graduation rate of students, as well as increase the number and diversity of students who pursue STEM careers. This project is supported by the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: EHR Program that supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. This conference is aligned with the Engaged Learning track, which supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools. It is also aligned with the Institutional and Community Transformation track, which supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.