Math 110 - Differential Calculus |
Title |
Description |
People involved |
Scheduled dates for work |
Status (2012.01.04) |
Documents |
Math 110.1 Learning Goals |
Write down learning goals for the workshops and the course. |
FSL, CP, JL |
Summer 10 |
3rd draft completed, published |
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Math 110.2 Basic Skill Tests | Develop diagnostic test for students registering in Math 110, 180, and 184. | RG, RA, CP, JL | Summer 08, 09, 10, 11 | Done, analyze after term ends | Results by CP for BST 2008: |
Math 110.3 Attittude Survey | Develop and run online surveys for current students to help determine their attitudes and perceptions towards math. |
JL | 10/11, 11/12 | 1st attitude survey - done 2nd attitude survey - done |
Math 110, 2010-09 with results Summary of results on attitude section for Math 184/104/110 (with results by WC), 2010-09 |
Math 110.4 Workshops | Redesign the format of the workshops. Perform workshop observations | FSL, DKim, DKoh, JL | 10/11, 11/12 | New workshop format used | |
Math 110.5 Online Homework | Develop online homework based on the WeBWorK system. | DKim, JL | 09/10 - 10/11 | 09/10, 10/11 - done 11/12 - MathXL is used |
Comparison b/w WeBWorK and written assignments |
Math 110.6 Group Projects | Develop and evaluate short group projects. Determine whether wiki-type discussion boards can be used for students during the term. | FSL, Dkim, DKoh, JL | 10/11 | Group projects - on hold Wiki - for DKim and DKoh sections only |
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Math 110.7 Course Materials | Build and record weekly course materials (lecture topics, homework, workshop activities, quizzes, tests) which can be added to the course archive. | FSL, DKim, DKoh, JL | 10/11 | Course materials collected | |
Math 110.8 Study Skills Interventions | Develop a set of effective strategies and meet with low-performing students to recommend changed. Evaluate the changes by student interviews. | FSL, DKim, DKoh, JL | Fall 10 - Spring 11 | Attitude and study habit survey done | Presentation on Study Skills, 2011-10 |
Math 110.9 Survey | Develop and run online surveys for current students to help determine their opinions on lectures, in-class activities, workshops, assignments and tests. Also find out why some students did not attend lectures or workshops, or did not do homework. |
JL | 10/11, 11/12 | Midterm survey - done Workshop survey - done Study habit survey - done |
Workshop survey form, 2010-11 |
Math 110.10 Online Textbook | Pilot the use of a free, online textbook paired with a collection of online resources as a replacement for the standard textbook. Measure student reception of this resource via focus groups and surveys. |
FSL, WC | 11/12, 12/13 | Focus group for standard textbook - done Online survey in Fall to match "use of study resources" survey from previous year - done Further online survey to probe specific online resource use - Spring 2013 Focus group for online textbook - Spring 2013 |
Focus group and survey data available by request from FSL or WC. |
Math 110.11 Student Peer Review | Evaluate possible schemes for students to assess one another's work in a conventient online system. |
WC | 12/13 | Investigated UBC options as of Fall 2012 - done |
Summary of online peer review options at UBC as of Fall 2012 |