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Transformational Change Efforts: Student Engagement in Mathematics through an Institutional Network for Active Learning
 
Edited by: Wendy M. Smith :  University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Matthew Voigt :  Clemson University, Clemson, SC
April Ström :  Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Chandler, AZ
David C. Webb :  University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
W. Gary Martin :  Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Transformational Change Efforts
Softcover ISBN:  978-1-4704-6377-9
Product Code:  MBK/138
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AMS Member Price: $63.20
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-6453-0
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Transformational Change Efforts: Student Engagement in Mathematics through an Institutional Network for Active Learning
Edited by: Wendy M. Smith :  University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Matthew Voigt :  Clemson University, Clemson, SC
April Ström :  Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Chandler, AZ
David C. Webb :  University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
W. Gary Martin :  Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Softcover ISBN:  978-1-4704-6377-9
Product Code:  MBK/138
List Price: $79.00
MAA Member Price: $71.10
AMS Member Price: $63.20
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-6453-0
Product Code:  MBK/138.E
List Price: $79.00
MAA Member Price: $71.10
AMS Member Price: $63.20
Softcover ISBN:  978-1-4704-6377-9
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-6453-0
Product Code:  MBK/138.B
List Price: $158.00 $118.50
MAA Member Price: $142.20 $106.65
AMS Member Price: $126.40 $94.80
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  • Book Details
     
     
    2021; 348 pp
    MSC: Primary 97

    The purpose of this handbook is to help launch institutional transformations in mathematics departments to improve student success. We report findings from the Student Engagement in Mathematics through an Institutional Network for Active Learning (SEMINAL) study. SEMINAL's purpose is to help change agents, those looking to (or currently attempting to) enact change within mathematics departments and beyond—trying to reform the instruction of their lower division mathematics courses in order to promote high achievement for all students. SEMINAL specifically studies the change mechanisms that allow postsecondary institutions to incorporate and sustain active learning in Precalculus to Calculus 2 learning environments. Out of the approximately 2.5 million students enrolled in collegiate mathematics courses each year, over 90% are enrolled in Precalculus to Calculus 2 courses. Forty-four percent of mathematics departments think active learning mathematics strategies are important for Precalculus to Calculus 2 courses, but only 15 percnt state that they are very successful at implementing them. Therefore, insights into the following research question will help with institutional transformations: What conditions, strategies, interventions and actions at the departmental and classroom levels contribute to the initiation, implementation, and institutional sustainability of active learning in the undergraduate calculus sequence (Precalculus to Calculus 2) across varied institutions?
    This book is published in cooperation with CBMS.
    Readership

    Department chairs, deans, and mathematicians wishing to make changes in the teaching of pre-calculus and calculus at a variety of institutions.
  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Overview of SEMINAL
    • The Student Engagement in Mathematics through an Institutional Network for Active Learning (SEMINAL) project: An overview
    • Research design and methodology
    • Six case studies
    • Phased Change University: A multistage approach to educational improvement
    • All-In University: Changing Everything at Once
    • Crossroads University: An Inflection Point Toward Educational Innovation
    • Long-Term University: Building a self-sustaining system
    • Critical Response University: When a crisis results in a new improved vision
    • Grassroots University: Building capacity through a sustained commitment to instructional innovation
    • Levers for change
    • Active learning mathematics
    • Leadership
    • Designing and implementing course coordination
    • Students’ experiences with active learning mathematics
    • Professional development
    • Use of resources to support active learning
    • Culture and equity
    • Sustaining Active Learning
    • Summarizing what we’ve learned
  • Additional Material
     
     
  • Reviews
     
     

    • The book 'Transformational Change Efforts; Student Engagement in Mathematics through an Institutional Network for Active Learning,' by Smith, Voigt, Strom, Web, and Martin, proposes a framework for active learning to enhance Precalculus through Calculus courses. The book is designed as a research study, followed by the SEMINAL project whose findings are summarized in the book. ...Each part of the book offers fresh insight into active learning.
      Andrzej Sokolowski, Lone Star College
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    Review Copy – for publishers of book reviews
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2021; 348 pp
MSC: Primary 97

The purpose of this handbook is to help launch institutional transformations in mathematics departments to improve student success. We report findings from the Student Engagement in Mathematics through an Institutional Network for Active Learning (SEMINAL) study. SEMINAL's purpose is to help change agents, those looking to (or currently attempting to) enact change within mathematics departments and beyond—trying to reform the instruction of their lower division mathematics courses in order to promote high achievement for all students. SEMINAL specifically studies the change mechanisms that allow postsecondary institutions to incorporate and sustain active learning in Precalculus to Calculus 2 learning environments. Out of the approximately 2.5 million students enrolled in collegiate mathematics courses each year, over 90% are enrolled in Precalculus to Calculus 2 courses. Forty-four percent of mathematics departments think active learning mathematics strategies are important for Precalculus to Calculus 2 courses, but only 15 percnt state that they are very successful at implementing them. Therefore, insights into the following research question will help with institutional transformations: What conditions, strategies, interventions and actions at the departmental and classroom levels contribute to the initiation, implementation, and institutional sustainability of active learning in the undergraduate calculus sequence (Precalculus to Calculus 2) across varied institutions?
This book is published in cooperation with CBMS.
Readership

Department chairs, deans, and mathematicians wishing to make changes in the teaching of pre-calculus and calculus at a variety of institutions.
  • Overview of SEMINAL
  • The Student Engagement in Mathematics through an Institutional Network for Active Learning (SEMINAL) project: An overview
  • Research design and methodology
  • Six case studies
  • Phased Change University: A multistage approach to educational improvement
  • All-In University: Changing Everything at Once
  • Crossroads University: An Inflection Point Toward Educational Innovation
  • Long-Term University: Building a self-sustaining system
  • Critical Response University: When a crisis results in a new improved vision
  • Grassroots University: Building capacity through a sustained commitment to instructional innovation
  • Levers for change
  • Active learning mathematics
  • Leadership
  • Designing and implementing course coordination
  • Students’ experiences with active learning mathematics
  • Professional development
  • Use of resources to support active learning
  • Culture and equity
  • Sustaining Active Learning
  • Summarizing what we’ve learned

  • The book 'Transformational Change Efforts; Student Engagement in Mathematics through an Institutional Network for Active Learning,' by Smith, Voigt, Strom, Web, and Martin, proposes a framework for active learning to enhance Precalculus through Calculus courses. The book is designed as a research study, followed by the SEMINAL project whose findings are summarized in the book. ...Each part of the book offers fresh insight into active learning.
    Andrzej Sokolowski, Lone Star College
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