Inessa Levi 11/05/2012

 Friendly, flexible and responsive course management system  Specifically geared towards mathematics and sciences  Tutorial software  Connected to our textbook  COMMUNICATION catalyst and tool  Great pedagogical tool  Great and fast support from EWA

 85% of students in class participated in an optional survey on WebAssign and Excel (93 responses)  Of those participating in the survey: ◦ 90% learned 63% said “more”) ◦ 90% said that they learned more or about the same vs math classes that do not use tutorial software (63% said “more”) ◦ 74%studied 51% said “more”) ◦ 74% said that they studied more or about the same (51% said “more”) ◦ 89% used Excel to do their work; and 90% of all respondents believed Excel to be useful ( not necessarily the same students) ◦ 98% who used Excel found it useful  Previous Seminar on Students’ Perspectives

students to be pro-active learners  Help students to be pro-active learners through use of graded in-class assignments for new material more responsive instructor:  Be more responsive instructor: check on the status of HW just before the beginning of the class to see what needs to be addressed communicating  Spend more time communicating with students:  students send me Q about particular problem at any time while they are working on it:  remind the students that an assignment is due in the future and they have not submitted it yet (or their score is < xx%)  congratulate students on work done well or early

 Instantaneous feedback  Instantaneous feedback from EWA and fast response from the instructor  projected final grade  projected final grade update throughout the semester practice problems  ability to practice problems in assignments (83% of students liked that about EWA)  Incentives and kudos  Incentives and kudos for submitting HW early (in MML have to do it by student, by assignment)  Flexibility with time extensions  Flexibility with time extensions for HW (with or without penalty)

Fall 2011 Different class formats 38 graded assignments, including 5 Quizzes and 4 Exams Some in-class work in one section Spring 2012 All face-to-face classes are in a lab 52 graded assignments, including 6 Quizzes 17 in-class assign 4 Exams Have to be in class for these

this class really showed me I can do anything if I put my mind to it. “  “…thank you for the most enjoyable math class I've ever been in. All my life I have had a hard time with math but you made learning math fun. …I will say I learned a lot this semester. I had to take math 0195 twice just to enter into Math Modeling, this class really showed me I can do anything if I put my mind to it. “ I no longer say I hate math. I now say, I like math-I just have to work at it.  “... I just got hired as a 3rd grade teacher … This school does blocks so I had the option to choose being a teacher in the subject math or reading. I can happily say, I chose to teach math. You were such an inspiration to me and because of you I no longer say I hate math. I now say, I like math-I just have to work at it. I am thrilled and can't wait to start decorating my classroom!”