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Redesigning Arithmetic for Student Success: Supporting Faculty to Teach in New Ways
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Bickerstaff, Susan; Lontz, Barbara; Cormier, Maria Scott; Xu, Di – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2014
This chapter describes a promising new approach to teaching developmental arithmetic and prealgebra, and presents research findings that demonstrate how a faculty support network helped instructors adopt new teaching strategies and gain confidence in teaching the reformed course.
Descriptors: Success, Arithmetic, Community Colleges, Program Descriptions