1. Bridges to Success Awardee Convening
Survive or Thrive
Bridges to Success Awardee Convening

2. Shelly Ray Parsons, Ph.D. Independent Assessment Consultant
Insightful Educator
Colorado Department of Higher Education
Colleges in Colorado and Idaho State System
Aims Community College, Greeley, CO
Professor of Mathematics
Director of Academic Assessment ( )
New Faculty Mentor, Curriculum and Professional Development
Content Specialist, e-Mentoring for Student Success (e-MSS)
January May 2016

3. What do we do at Aims…
Statewide redesign in Developmental courses for both Math and English
Spring 2014 pilot
Fall 2014 all community colleges implement
Co-requisite pairings in
College Algebra
Statistics
Math for the Liberal Arts
Students with a placement score below a specific level (cut score) must enroll in both the co-requisite course and the college level course
Drop one…dropped from both
Any student with a score above the mandatory enroll cut score may take in the co- requisite course

5. What’s working…well sort of
Pass rate for developmental math courses
Increase 36% to 41%
Note…English 52% to 75%
College Algebra
MAT 121 and MAT 093
42 students enrolled in MAT 093
18 successfully completed MAT 093 and 11 also successfully completed MAT 121
Statistics
MAT 135 and MAT 092
69 students enrolled in MAT 093
32 successfully completed MAT 093 and 17 also successfully completed MAT 135
Math for the Liberal Arts
MAT 120 and MAT 091
No data…haven’t run MAT 091 yet

6. Pairing both courses with the same instructor
Why are the pass rates in English higher that Math?
What are design are they using that we are not?

7. Developing Supporting Materials
Departmental collaboration on MAT 093 materials
Weekly schedule that supports the structure of MAT 121
Faculty teaching MAT 121 have all agreed to present Chapters in the same order or approximately the same order
Activities and handouts are shared with all faculty teaching the MAT 093 course but not all faculty are using the materials
Daily board work is highly encouraged
MAT 093 sections all meet twice weekly
No collaboration has occurred for MAT 092 materials
Weekly schedule that supports the structure of MAT 135 is needed
Faculty teaching MAT 135 have all agreed to present Chapters in the same order or approximately the same order but some part time faculty are adding additional content beyond what is required in the course
No activities or handouts are currently being shared for MAT 092 course
Daily board work is highly encouraged
MAT 092 sections all meet twice weekly

8. Syllabus information Common components for all co-requisite labs
Prerequisites
Text
Description
Content
Grades
Competencies currently listed…revising to LOs
Additional elements added by individual faculty or are part of the standard syllabus requirements
See online resources

9. Schedule at a Glance Week Vocabulary Notation & Forms Skills 1
Expression
Equation
Inequality
Solve
Solution
Variable
Factor
Simplify
Exponents
Numbers
Solving 1 variable equations
Basic factoring

10. Helpful Handouts… Download?
Syllabus, schedule, and some sample activities

11. What should be Happening during These classes?

12. What Happens in some of them…
Students work alone
More of a “study hall” vibe
Just work on your homework
Little interaction with the faculty member
Ask for help if you need it
When students from multiple sections are enrolled and in different places within the course content, it can be difficult to create activities to support and meet all their needs.

13. Recommendations
Partner co-requisite courses so that the faculty member teaches both courses as often as possible or
Partner faculty teaching the co- requisite sections with faculty teaching the college level sections like a learning community
Create a weekly structure for all co- requisite sections to follow that supports the college level course
Develop and share activities and materials with both full and part-time
Require all faculty to use the materials along with active learning strategies in their co-requisite course

14. Questions?