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Research Spr 16

week of 1/10/16

1/10/2016

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How does decreasing class size to 20 in freshmen math compared to decreasing student:teacher to 30:2 as a method of improving math passing rates?

Both will improve math passing rates but decreasing student:teacher ratio to 30:2 will have higher pass rates than decreasing class size to 20.

Preliminary data:  The same 20 teachers have been teaching freshmen math for the past 5 years.  Class size has been 28-32 consistently.  Pass rates for all teachers for all years are known and have been consistent for all 5 years with an overall mean of 30%, std of 2%.

Plan:  Take the 600 freshman, and divide them into three groups.  5 teachers will have 100 students randomly selected.  10 teachers will pair up and have 150 students randomly selected.  The remaining 5 teachers will have the usual class size of 30, serving another 150 students.  The remaining 200 students will be served by 8 new teachers funded under a grant from DOE for this trial.


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    Dr. Kate Maloney was considered a genetic anomaly as a child in her family of writers, readers and history and English majors. After a few career stops that include researching as a National Science Foundation Post-doc Fellowship, teaching at Georgia Tech, writing the manual for a 40G optical transport system, co-founding a small engineering business, she finds herself happily sharing her days with the best students in the world:  Wheeler High kids.  #WildcatNation

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