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Our working theory of change is represented in the following diagram.
*RAC Co-Leaders
You can contact the RAC leaders to discuss how you might get involved. We recommend you start small—check out the resources below and start talking to others at your site. Our RAC members are active at the Joint Math Meetings (JMM) and Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (RUME), so you can usually catch us presenting there. You may want to attend a hands-on workshop focused on active learning, such as those put on by the Academy of Inquiry Based Learning . Some RAC materials for use with precalculus to calculus 2 classes (P2C2) are available online . The ALM RAC efforts overlap with the NSF-Funded SEMINAL grant (Student Engagement in Mathematics through an Institutional Network for Active Learning ), which is studying institutional change and how departments can change their cultures so that actively engaging students is the new normal.
Elrod, S., & Kezar, A. (2016). Increasing student success in STEM: A guide to systemic institutional change. Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities. https://www.aacu.org/publications-research/publications/increasing-student-success-stem-guide-systemic-institutional |
Kezar, A. (2013). How colleges change: Understanding, leading, and enacting change. New York: Routledge. http://www.adriannakezar.com/publications/books |
Bryk, A. S., Gomez, L., Grunow, Al., & LeMahieu, P. (2015). Learning to improve: How America’s schools can get better at getting better. Boston: Harvard Education Publishing. https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/resources/publications/learning-to-improve/ |
Hayward, C. N., Kogan, M., & Laursen, S. L. (2016). Facilitating instructor adoption of inquiry-based learning in college mathematics. International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2, 59-82. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40753-015-0021-y |
Freeman, S., Eddy, S. L., McDonough, M., Smith, M. K., Okoroafor, N., Jordt, H., & Wenderoth, M. P. (2014). Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(23), 8410-8415. http://www.pnas.org/content/111/23/8410 |
Laursen, S. L., Hassi, M.-L., Kogan, M., & Weston, T. J. (2014). Benefits for women and men of inquiry-based learning in college mathematics: A multi-institution study. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 45(4), 405-418. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5951/jresematheduc.45.4.0406 |
Bressoud, D., Carlson, M. P., Mesa, V., & Rasmussen, C. (2013). The calculus student: Insights from the Mathematical Association of America national study. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science & Technology, 44(5), 685-698. https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/cspcc/InsightsandRecommendations.pdf |
MAA Instructional Practices Guide (2017). Retrieved from https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/curriculum%20resources/instructional-practices-guide |
ALM RAC-Related Publications
Smith, W. M., Callahan, K., Mingus, T., & Hodge, A. (2020). Active learning mathematics research action cluster. In W. G. Martin, A. Lischka, W. M. Smith and B. R. Lawler (Eds.), The Mathematics Teacher Education Partnership: The power of a networked improvement community to transform secondary mathematics teacher preparation (pp. 143-178). Volume 4 in B. Benken (Ed.), Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators Professional Book Series. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. https://amte.net/content/mathematics-teacher-education-partnership-power-networked-improvement-community-transform |
Smith, W. M., Callahan, K., Strayer, J., Jones, R. S., & Augustyn, L. C. (Eds.) (2019). Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Mathematics Teacher Education Partnership. Washington, DC: Association of Public and Land grant Universities. [multiple chapters about ALM RAC] |
Smith, W. M., Lawler, B., Strayer, J., & Augustyn, L. C. (Eds.) (August 2018). Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Mathematics Teacher Education Partnership. Washington, DC: Association of Public and Land grant Universities. [multiple chapters about ALM RAC] http://www.aplu.org/projects-and-initiatives/stem-education/mathematics-teacher-education-partnership/mtep-conferences-meetings/mtep7.html |
Smith, W. M., Lawler, B., Bowers, J., & Augustyn, L. C. (Eds.) (2017). Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Mathematics Teacher Education Partnership. Washington, DC: Association of Public and Land grant Universities. [multiple chapters about ALM RAC] http://www.aplu.org/projects-and-initiatives/stem-education/mathematics-teacher-education-partnership/mtep-conferences-meetings/mtep6.html |
Lawler, B. R., Ronau, R. N., & Mohr-Schroeder, M. J. (Eds.). (2016). Proceedings of the fifth annual Mathematics Teacher Education Partnership conference. Washington, DC: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. [multiple chapters about ALM RAC] http://www.aplu.org/projects-and-initiatives/stem-education/mathematics-teacher-education-partnership/mtep-conferences-meetings/mtep5.html |
Apkarian, N., Bowers, J., O’Sullivan, M., & Rasmussen, C. (2018). A case study of change in the teaching and learning of Precalculus to Calculus 2: What we’re doing with what we have. PRIMUS, 28(6), 528-549. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10511970.2017.1388319 |
Lai, Y., Smith, W. M., Wakefield, N. P. Miller, E. R., St. Goar, J., Groothuis, C. M., & Wells, K. M. (2016). Characterizing mathematics graduate student teaching assistants’ opportunities to learn from teaching. In J. Dewar, P. Hsu, & H. Pollatsek (Eds.) Mathematics education: A spectrum of work in mathematical sciences departments (Chapter 6, pp. 73-88), Association for Women in Mathematics Series. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319449494 |
Wakefield, N., & Smith, W. M. (2016). Enriching Student’s Online Homework Experience in Pre-Calculus Courses: Hints and Cognitive Supports. In T. Fukawa-Connolly (Ed.), Proceedings of the 19th Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Conference, Pittsburg, PA. http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/Site/Proceedings.html |
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