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Constance A. Lightner; Carin A. Lightner-Laws – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
As COVID-19 continues to impact various business sectors, university administrators have steadily pushed for all academic units to resume on campus operations and activities; conversely, faculty and students have expressed increased interest in continuing online teaching/learning. We aim to mitigate this "tug-of-war" between…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Flexible Scheduling, Business Administration Education, Statistics
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Collins, Christopher A.; Galbreath, David R. – PRIMUS, 2022
The pedagogical discussion between the merits of traditional learning versus online learning provides much discussion from both camps. Following the Coronavirus of 2019 pandemic in the spring of 2020, undergraduate students enrolled in the freshman Single Variable Calculus course at the United States Military Academy at West Point were forced to…
Descriptors: Online Courses, COVID-19, Pandemics, Calculus
Ganga, Elizabeth; Mazzariello, Amy – Education Commission of the States, 2019
Community colleges and open-access, four-year colleges admit nearly everyone who applies and enroll students with a wide range of skills. Many of these colleges run developmental education programs for students who they determine are underprepared for college-level courses. More than two-thirds of community college students are assigned to…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Student Evaluation, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Education Commission of the States, 2020
This report documents the results to date of reforms underway from the State University of New York (SUNY) Strong Start to Finish, one of the six systems that make up the first phase of the Strong Start to Finish initiative, an initiative of Education Commission of the States. SUNY is using its Strong Start to Finish resources to support…
Descriptors: Educational Change, College Mathematics, College English, Student Placement
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Gerhardt, Ira – PRIMUS, 2017
The recent introduction of a new course in mathematical modeling at Manhattan College has provided students with a valuable opportunity to gain practical experience utilizing tools in applying their mathematical abilities to a real-world problem. This paper describes the steps taken to create this class, from obtaining a real-world partner…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models, Teaching Methods, Relevance (Education)
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Dellwo, David R. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2010
A multi-stage pre/post testing scheme is developed to gauge course effectiveness using gain and loss components of normalized change. The components, unlike normalized change itself, can be used to distinguish courses that promote acquisition as well as retention of information from courses that promote acquisition at the expense of retention or…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Student Evaluation, Undergraduate Students, Courses