Lightning Talks
Designing for Student Success: Adaptive/Active Learning
Lightning Talk Speakers
![amanda-round.png Dr. Amanda Brindley Holton](/sites/default/files/images/amanda-round.png)
Dr. Amanda Brindley Holton, UCI, Biophysical Chemistry
Starting this year, in certain introductory Chemistry courses, we offered concurrent supplemental instruction designed with significant just-in-time and adaptive elements to address the large variety in student behavior. In this presentation, I will share the types of elements we’re using and the results on student learning so far.
![jen-mei-round.png Dr. Jen-Mei Chang](/sites/default/files/images/jen-mei-round.png)
Dr. Jen-Mei Chang, CSULB Mathematics and Statistics
See this recent article published in The LAist news site featuring Dr. Chang:
Cal State Scrapped 'Remedial' Math, And So Far Students Are Getting Along Fine
Starting in 2012, CSULB began offering a 1-or 3-unit Early Start Mathematics courses to students who satisfied the university’s admissions requirement without being ready for college-level mathematics. This course was designed to improve students' success in their subsequent GE math requirements. However, average pass rates were consistently below 10 percent for students who took the 1-unit ESM class.
In the summer of 2017, I restructured the ESM class and adopted a self-paced learning system called ALEKS Placement, Preparation, and Learning (PPL) to gain a precise understanding of students’ mathematics knowledge. ALEKS PPL is adaptive – it provides insight into what each student knows and is ready to learn with a single personalized, open-response assessment. Students who completed the course using ALEKS showed improved completion rates in their first semester-long mathematics class.
- ALEKS PPL Case Study with CSULB provides implementation details and outcomes.
- ALEKS PPL is adaptive – it provides insight into what each student knows and is ready to learn with a single personalized, open-response assessment covering 314 topics in 30 questions or less.
![aleks.png ALEKS PPL Case Study](/sites/default/files/images/aleks.png)
ALEKS PPL allows teachers to have a comprehensive understanding of their learners’ mathematics knowledge mastery level. This type of information is extremely useful in curriculum
![aleks2.png aleks items in toc order](/sites/default/files/images/aleks2.png)
ALEKS PPL is able to tell the teachers exactly how much progress students make.
![aleks3.png 2018 early start math at csulb](/sites/default/files/images/aleks3.png)
![lizbarnett-round.png Dr. Liz Barnett](/sites/default/files/images/lizbarnett-round.png)
Dr. Liz Barnett, CSULB Sociology
This semester, I taught in a different department (Sociology vs. Human Development), and adopted the syllabi prepared by a previous instructor. To support the students’ comprehension of reading materials, I created online quizzes for students to test their knowledge and do practice problems at home at their own pace.