USING MAPLE T.A. TO IMPROVE STUDENT SUCCESS AND COURSE ALIGNMENT G. Michael Guy 2015 Maple T.A. User Summit

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Joint Work 2

¨  Joint work with Jonathan Cornick and Karan Puri ¨  Lots of inspiration from the Community College

Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University

¨  Funding from Offices of Academic Affairs ¨  Thanks to the organizers of this summit

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Demographics 3

¨  The City University of New York (CUNY) ¤ 269,000 degree students ¤ 247,000 continuing & professional education students ¤ 24 campuses across NYC

¨  Elementary Algebra (Remedial/Developmental) ¤ ≈15,000 students enroll each semester ¤ Pass rate is ≈42%

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CUNY Elementary Algebra Final Exam 4

CUNY has administered more than 83,000 final exams on Maple T.A.

(not including spring 2015)

But this is not what I’m going to talk about.

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Comprehensive Course Redesign 5

¨  New textbook, My Math GPS: Elementary Algebra Guided Problem Solving, is an Open Educational Resource. It is inexpensive to students, and the authors receive no royalties.

¨  It is aligned to the CUNY Elementary Algebra Learning Objectives. ¨  It includes contextualized support for arithmetic. The aim is for

students to practice their arithmetic while learning algebra. ¨  It is structured to encourage active problem-solving during class.

Instructors are only asked to complete one or two guiding examples in each section, and students spend the remaining time working on the problems in the textbook.

¨  Quizzes and tests are designed to help students progress toward mastery of the material by the end of the term. Two quizzes in between each of four tests.

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Overview of Results 6

Students using the My Math GPS textbook and accompanying pedagogy ¨  scored more than 10 points higher on the CUNY

Elementary Algebra Final Exam, ¨  were more than twice as likely to take the final exam,

and ¨  were almost three times more likely to pass the course.

(N=569, NGPS=148) Guy, G. M., Cornick, J., & Puri, K. (to appear). Contextualizing Arithmetic into Developmental Elementary Algebra using Guided Problem Solving. Accepted for publication in PRIMUS.

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Main Character (Today) 7

The course redesign is enhanced by Maple T.A.

We used Maple T.A. to encourage our students to ¤  independently master course techniques, ¤ prepare for upcoming assessments, and ¤  learn from mistakes after assessments.

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Assessment Schedule Handout 8

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Assignment Names Align to Assessments 9

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Additional Problems Available 10

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Book/Online Alignment 11

Book

Online

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Learning Continues After Assessments 12

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Opportunity to Self-Remediate 13

On the Assessment On Maple T.A. Afterwards

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Assessment Strategy 14

¨  Quizzes ¤ Design each quiz to require 20 minutes to complete. ¤ Give each quiz during a 50 minute class period with Maple

T.A. available. ¨  Tests

¤ Design each test to require 50 minutes to complete. ¤ Give test during a 100 minute class period with Maple T.A.

available. ¨  Immediately after a student finishes each assessment,

they immediately complete the online version. If they finish, then they simply start preparing for the next assessment.

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Questions 15

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