The Development of a Sustainable First Year Experience Program to Improve Mathematical Preparedness

Description

This project aims to investigate the challenges of curricular integration of first-year experience programming by building on a successful pilot initiative in which students were invited to complete a variety of modules designed to help them reflect on their academic skills and set goals for successful completion of their first year and beyond.

This project aims to expand the pilot initiative by improving current programming and by developing additional modules targeting academic skills development, including both direct and indirect mathematical preparedness. This project also intends to explore the factors that affect student and instructor buy-in in order to balance the cost and benefit to both students and instructors and develop sustainable programming that can be easily adopted and adapted by instructors in their large first-year mathematics courses.