Innovation + Rigor - Fear = The New MATH 123
2.) Increase MATH 123’s successful completion rate.
“A lot of students that take MATH 123, that's their terminal course; that's the last course they need before they get their degree,” Parson described. “Anecdotally, students wait until the very last semester to take their math course because they're just scared to death of it. And so to be able to sit there and move these students forward is something that's very important to all of us in the department. We want our students to succeed.” Finding the virtual platform that resonated well with Ivy Indy students taking MATH 123 went hand-in-hand with the steady incline of successful completion rates over the last six years. Through trial and error, the math department landed on Knewton Alta as its MATH 123 virtual modality. Since 2018, the course’s successful completion rate has jumped from 55.24% to 78.9% completion rate in the spring 2023 midterm. “That’s huge!” Parson says. “We certainly saw big, big improvements.” Read more about the math department's years-long search for the best higher education platform for quantitative reasoning courses on the Ivy Indy Blog.
Over the last six years, MATH 123- Quantitative Reasoning at Ivy Tech Community College-Indianapolis has had a complete overhaul. Ivy Indy’s Mathematics Department, led by Dorcas Parson, the department chair and an associate professor, set out to do two things in 2017: 1.) Find an effective and efficient online platform for the MATH 123 course. “There were no virtual modalities of MATH 123. There were no online classes for it. It was all in person. And it was paper and pencil tasks; paper and pencil homework. There was nothing online,” Parson said.
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