Middlesex Community College Developmental Math Redesign Preparation For College Math, RAMP-Up

1. Middlesex Community CollegeDevelopmental Math RedesignPreparation For College Math, RAMP-Up

2. Previous Courses Current Course Note: Students who test into MAT 080 take MAT 080, Algebra 2 in a traditional lecture class.

3. Students who previously placed into… Placement

4. Preparation for College MathMCC RAMP-Up Math Program Complete at Least 4 Modules to Pass • Student must complete at least 4 modules in order to pass the class • Mastery is required to pass each module (75%) • Students can accelerate their progress by completing more than 4 modules Requires at Least 75% for Mastery

5. Working through the Modules 75% or better and the student passes the module. <75% and the student does a required assignment based on their errors before retesting. 75% or better and the student passes the module.

6. Use of Khan Academy in Pilot Sections • Identified two topics that are typically challenging for students in each Module. • Selected a Khan Academy video for each topic. • Each video replaces a page in the Module Workbook. Watching the video is not additional work for the student. • Students are asked to write out the problem(s) that are worked out in each video. • Students answer a short survey after each video. • Students hand in completed work for each video. • At semester end, Instructors tally number of videos watched and time spent watching videos for each participating student.

7. Khan Academy Pilot Sections • Fall and Spring Semesters: • 2 Day sections on the Lowell Campus • 1 Day section on the Bedford Campus • 1 Evening section on the Bedford Campus • 1 Saturday section on the Bedford Campus • Summer semester: • 1 Day section on the Bedford Campus • 1 Evening section on the Bedford Campus

8. MCC RAMP-Up Math Classroom • 6 hexagonal pods with 6 computers per pod • Faculty instructor and tutor embedded in each section • 3 hours of class & 1 hour of lab per week • Attendance is mandatory • 30 students per section • Also room for other students who want to make up missed classes or put in additional time

9. Benefits for Students • Opportunity to complete the developmental sequence more quickly. • More opportunity for one-on-one help. • More active learning by students. Students do lots of problems in the course. • Flexibility. Students can recover from set-backs more easily. • Students start where they left off the previous semester.

10. Completion-Fall 2013 • Succeeded means the student finished the modules equivalent to the course they would have been placed into in the previous developmental sequence. • Exceeded means the student finished modules beyond those equivalent to the course they would have been placed into in the previous developmental sequence.

11. CompletionTraditional Classroom vs. RAMP-Up

12. Persistence

13. Contact Information Bert Engvall Middlesex Community College 33 Kearney Square Lowell, MA 01854 • engvallb@middlesex.mass.edu • (978)656-3355

14. Outcomes Based on Placement * In this context, succeeded means the student finished the modules equivalent to the course they would have been placed in the previous developmental sequence.

15. Succeeders & Exceeders Fall 2012

16. Student QuotesFrom Spring 2012 Survey • I really like the self-paced idea of this class! Traditional math classes can be so boring but This was great being able to work on my own. • Very well organized course. I learned a lot from it, and I feel like the material was a lot easier to learn in this course rather than in a classroom setting. I was in this class for two semesters, and both professors were very helpful and pleasant to work with. • I would rather a teacher actually teach this class than sit in front of a computer. I think not just myself but others would learn more and faster if it were taught in a classroom environment and there was classroom participation.