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Redesign Program Goals and Keys

LSU Course Redesign Phoebe Rouse Louisiana State University DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS Baton Rouge, LA. Redesign Program Goals and Keys. R2R: Roadmap to Redesign (Fall 2004-Spring 2007) Goals of Redesign: To use technology To reduce personnel costs

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Redesign Program Goals and Keys

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  1. LSU Course RedesignPhoebe RouseLouisiana State UniversityDEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICSBaton Rouge, LA

  2. Redesign Program Goals and Keys • R2R: Roadmap to Redesign (Fall 2004-Spring 2007) • Goals of Redesign: • To use technology • To reduce personnel costs • To continue/improve current success rates • Pedagogical Keys of Redesign: • Active Student Learning Experience • Personalized, Individualized Instruction  • Immediate Feedback  • Repetition to Mastery

  3. Courses and Enrollment College Algebra (3 credit hours) • 1800 Fall • 400 Spring • 200 Summer Trigonometry (3 credit hours) • 1000 Fall • 1000 Spring • 200 Summer Precalculus (College Algebra and Trig, 5 credit hours) • 400 Fall • 50 Spring

  4. A. Flexible Lab Model(Fall and Spring only) Class at fixed time • CA – 1 hour per week – 40 students • Trig – 1 hour per week – 160 students • Precalculus – 2 hours per week – 40 students • Review and connecting of concepts, working examples with most difficult skills Lab at flexible times (open 60 hours each week) • CA – 3 hours minimum each week • Trig – 3 hours minimum each week • Precalculus – 5 hours minimum each week • Do homework, do quizzes, read ebook, watch videos

  5. B. Early Completion Model(Fall and Spring only) • 1 section each of College Algebra and Trig • Sections capped at 200 students each • No class meetings • Optional lab hours – flexible times • Rigid due dates • Option to work ahead

  6. C. Fixed Lab Model(Summer only) • 2 sections of College Algebra and 2 sections of Trig • Enrollment per section capped at 100 • 8 class days and 16 lab days cycling in order of class, lab, lab, and then repeating • 3 fixed hours in lab required per cycle • Lab open 8 hours each cycle

  7. Assessments • All homework, quizzes, tests, and final exam using MyMathLab • Test in university testing center • Grade Distribution(modified for EC and Su) 10% Participation (5% class and 5% lab) 10% Homework (drop lowest 2/3) 10% Quizzes (drop the lowest 2) 45% Tests (4/5) 25% Final (can replace lowest test score)

  8. Pleasant Hall Math LabFall 2005

  9. PH Basement Math Lab Fall 2006

  10. PH Basement Side Room Fall 2007

  11. College Algebra Fall Results

  12. TrigFall Results

  13. College Algebra Spring Results

  14. TrigSpring Results

  15. “Must Haves” for Redesign • The support of both the department administration and the upper administration • A strong-willed, thick-skinned program director • A core group of instructors and professors dedicated to working hard to make the redesign succeed • Space and computers for a learning lab • A willingness on the part of everyone involved to be flexible and CHANGE 6. A purpose and an overall plan for redesign

  16. Do’s and Don’ts • Do stagger student assignment deadlines to avoid an overloaded lab • Do set up homework and quizzes to be due before the new material is taught. • Do establish credit hour equivalencies prior to assigning teacher’s schedules. • Do increase administrator/coordinator release time to run program. • Do designate a person to manage data, a person to prepare the lab schedule for tutors and train them, and a person to become expert at using the time clock. • Do prepare for the unexpected. • Don’t give up!

  17. Elements of a Sustained Redesign • Detailed course syllabus and individual daily schedules • Online assessments and carefully chosen assignment settings • Settings for individual students • Process for importing into and exporting from the gradebook • Precise password management • Allowance for open homework • Rotating lab and efficient time clock management • Well-trained teachers and tutors and constant tutor supervising • Attention to DETAILS

  18. Contact Info Phoebe Rouse LSU prouse@lsu.edu NCAT Redesign Scholar MyMathLab Faculty Advocate

  19. Precalculus Fall Results

  20. Precalculus Spring Results

  21. Tutor and Teacher Training • Ugrad Tutor Training Program a. Hiring and screening b. Pre-semester workshop • First-Year-TA Tutor Training Program a. Pre-semester workshop b. Fall semester Comm Math course c. Spring semester Comm Math course • First-Time-Teaching-Redesign Teacher Workshop (R2R Manual) 4. Pre-semester Meeting for All Teaching

  22. Redesign Personnel Program Management • Overall program administrator • Course coordinators for each course • Tutor supervisor • Time clock manager Teaching • Instructors • Upper level math graduate students Lab Tutoring • Instructors • Upper level math graduate students • First-year math graduate students • Ugrad math majors Tech support • Ugrad students from LSU ITS

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