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Math and College

Math and College. State of the State?. Admission & Placement. Admission Requirements for Baccalaureate Institutions CADRs – Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, and a senior year quantitative course. OR pass pre-calculus or higher Placement Depends EWU, WSU – everybody

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Math and College

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  1. Math and College State of the State?

  2. Admission & Placement • Admission Requirements for Baccalaureate Institutions • CADRs – Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, and a senior year quantitative course. • OR pass pre-calculus or higher • Placement • Depends • EWU, WSU – everybody • UW – students taking certain Math courses (pre-calculus, calculus, algebra with applications, analysis for biologists)

  3. Admission and placement • Admission Requirements for SFCC (Community College) • Over 18 or GED • No Math admission requirement, but some demonstration of proficiency required for transfer degree. • Placement test or remedial coursework • Placement • All degree seeking students

  4. Is there a common standard for placement tests? • No • Well, sort of…if you count the MPT-G • Really, though…No • Very hopeful about Smarter Balanced.

  5. Graduation Requirements • Almost every bachelor’s degree requires some college level Math/Quantitative course. • College level – above Algebra II/ Intermediate Algebra • Occasionally, other quantitative courses may be taken • Two year vocational Associate Degrees can have math as determined by the needs of the profession.

  6. Two local Alignment efforts College Spark grant and Core to college grant

  7. College Spark grant • Participants – Spokane Falls Community College and high schools from Spokane Public Schools • Ferris, Lewis and Clark, North Central, Shadle, Rogers and Bryant • Basic Concept – Give SFCC’s placement test to SPS Algebra II students in 2012-13 and 2013-14.

  8. College Spark grant • The SFCC test is built with MyMathTest (MMT) from Pearson. • Homegrown – written by SFCC Math faculty to align with curriculum. • SFCC students succeeded (2.0 or better) in their course placement 61% of the time in 2012-13.

  9. College Spark grant • The MMT can place students at 6 levels • Math 90 – PreAlgebra • Math 93 – Algebra I • Math 94 – Algebra II • Math 98 – Algebra III • Math 108 – College Level • Math 141 – Precalculus I

  10. College Spark grant • In practice, the test is competency-based. • For example, students must show competency in prealgebra before attempting algebra questions. • This feature was turned off for this activity. • Students took the test in winter and in spring. • Students were given access to a tutorial in the interim.

  11. College Spark grant • The purpose of the activity was to get a snapshot of the current state of alignment between SPS ands SFCC and provide information. • Placement results in winter and spring • Rough line item analysis reflecting emphasis at each institution.

  12. College Spark grant Placement results • Note that in order to place in College Level (Math 108), students would need to pass 4 sections – PreAlgebra, Algebra I, Algebra II, and Algebra III. • Each section has roughly 10 questions. • 1352 students took the MMT in winter and 1406 took it again in the spring.

  13. College Spark grant • The MMT was also given to a small test group of 24 SFCC students completing Algebra III - Math 98, the course serving as a prerequisite for college level math courses. • Only 47% of students that were successful in Math 98 placed in a course higher than Math 98.

  14. College Spark grant • Placement by SES status

  15. College Spark grant • Improvement from first to second test

  16. Spokane’s core to college grant • Grant Participants – SFCC, SCC, EWU, SPS, Mead, ESD 101 • CV, Chewelah, Colville, Davenport, Creston and Newport are participating in the grant activities. • Basic Concept – Advocating for greater alignment through the implementation of CCSS.

  17. Spokane’s core to college grant • First year activity • Design a gap analysis instrument for taking a snapshot of the level at which participating schools are addressing the CCSS standards in Algebra and Functions.

  18. Spokane’s core to college grant • First year activity • Participating schools were asked to apply the gap analysis to their Algebra/PreCollege sequence and to their Precalculus sequence. • NOT official • Informal • Perceptual • Completed by individuals

  19. Spokane’s core to college grant • Ratings • N (No) • P (Prerequisite) • B (Brief) • M (Moderate) • H (High)

  20. Spokane’s core to college grant • Rough Summary created • Average rating for secondary was compared against average rating for postsecondary. • Variation in ratings was looked at for each sector, secondary and postsecondary (plus/minus of 1 rough standard)

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  23. Spokane’s core to college grant • Observations • Not surprisingly, secondary schools report greater alignment with CCS standards • Somewhat surprisingly, the self reports indicate significant variation within ratings for each sector.

  24. Spokane’s core to college grant • Next Steps • Site visits to each of the participating schools • Ask for reflections and ideas on alignment • Advocate and inform about regional efforts • Organize ongoing regional efforts supporting greater alignment

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