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February 3, 2023
Usually “PhilOnEdTech” is *interesting* to me — lots of discussions of online learning and what’s going on with the assorted companies. What happened when Canvas got bought? What do those enrollment numbers and patterns really mean? … but I don’t always click through if I’m busy, and … I’ve missed some important ones!!! Today’s post […]
October 26, 2022
Oh, boy. “Developmental education or cultural assimilation?” “Students placed into developmental courses are deemed unworthy of the intellectual work of gateway courses….” Well, I guess if that is what they do, they should change that, then? I mean, *speak for yourselves.* It’s not how we do it here. “From attendance to class participation, our developmental […]
September 3, 2022
Anderson, P., Pribesh, S., & Williams, M. R. (2020). A Matched-Samples Comparison of Pass Rates for Students Coenrolled in Developmental Education and College-Level Math Compared to Similar Non-Coenrolled Students. Community College Enterprise, 26(2), 24–36. So! In that special abstract paragraph, big fat yellow flag: “We found that students who are coenrolled in developmental and college-level math were […]
May 28, 2021
Note the first paragraph: led to “gains in access.” Access isn’t equity, last I heard. They changed placement rules and more people had access!! (Not saying this is a bad thing, just thinking that it being “remarkable” is interesting.) Okay, now to the actual success insaid courses: 61% ofall students taking English first time successfully […]
January 7, 2020
I get to eat some words 🙂 Alexandra Logue tweeted that hey, there was lots of evidence that supporting students in college level math *worked* with a link to a study: “Should Students Assessed as Needing Remedial Mathematics Take College-Level Quantitative Courses Instead? A Randomized Controlled Trial.” Erm. Yes. I was skeptical. And when I […]
November 12, 2019
The most recent article was about math beyond developmental — college algebra. This article is pre-developmental; it’s about high school. The authors aim high with this analogy: we should be “making mathematics ‘a pump, not a filter’. That’s worth pausing and considering. What would that look like???? The *antithesis* of gatekeeping. That’s […]
November 4, 2019
Technically not an article; it’s transcript from a podcast. “Grow Up, Branch Out.” It suggests we could have mathematical literacy infused in *life* and all through college, no matter what you’re major. I was intrigued by an early quote: We call QL a literacy for the same reason: it is not a skill that we […]
April 11, 2019
Somebody posted a conversion chart that included gills and quarts and barrels, causing a tangential earworm. I searched enough to find the “barley mow” song… so now I can at least separate that in my brain from the drinking song about eating a mallard starting with the leg, which I failed in finding… Just because […]
September 20, 2018
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 From Curry D. Where to Focus so Students Become College and Career Ready. Journal Of Research & Practice For Adult Literacy, Secondary & Basic Education [serial online]. Spring2017 2017;6(1):62. The National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) asked: What does it […]
Resource Room Dot Net Blog 
another article about co-reqs
March 4, 2023
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Wonsun Ryu, Lauren Schudde, & Kim Pack. (2022). Constructing Corequisites: How Community Colleges Structure Corequisite Math Coursework and the Implications for Student Success. AERA Open, 8. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584221086664 This one discusses what kinds of co-req designs were more important. In the “nope, no surprise!!” category, for “ease of interpretation,” the results are presented in terms of […]