dr. selina v. mireles texas state university minority education innovation

Dr. Selina V. MirelesTexas State University

MINORITY EDUCATION

INNOVATION

Hispanics have accounted for more than half (50.5%) of the overall population growth in the United States in this decade, a significant new demographic milestone for the nation's largest minority group.

A new Pew Hispanic Center report analyzes Latino growth and settlement patterns over the past three decades (Pew Hispanic Center, 2008).

MINORITY EDUCATION

Minority students still have large gender gaps.

Minority males are falling further behind than females

African American and Hispanics take more remedial math courses as compared to white counterparts.

Latino/as and African Americans have greater dropout rates when compared to whites

Students who attend schools in low SES areas are not challenged as much as those students in high SES areas(Hambrick, 2008)

MINORITY EDUCATION

How and

Why WHAT’S WORKING?

FOCUS MODEL

Lear

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Sup

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Dev

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Academic Support ServicesCredit-Bearing

Course

25%

14%46%

Race/Ethnicity

Hispanic

African-American

White

56%44%

Gender

Female

Male

THE FOCUS STUDENT

State DE Cut-off Program Entry200

210

220

230

240230

211

Average TSI ScoreNever At Least

Once

0%

40%

80%

15%

85%

Repeated DE Math

THE FOCUS STUDENT

Credit-bearing Course Backwards Design

Developmental Mathematics Course Just-In-Time

Learning Support Contextualized Real-World Problems

Correlation Numeracy/Literacy Cultural Relevance Technology

Hot Topics

FOCUS MODEL

31%

60%

9%

GraduatedEnrolledNot Enrolled

FOCUS STUDENT STATUS

TSI / THEA ScoresLASSI ScoresMARS ScoresSAT / ACT ScoresCMR College ExamGrade Point AverageMathematics HistoryTSI Status Read / WritePersonal Interviews

MATH READINESS INDICATORS

The position of the Center for Mathematics is that

several indicators should be used to determine a student’s mathematics coursework entry point.

MATH READINESS INDICATORS

Dr. Selina V. MirelesProfessor, Department of MathematicsFounder & Director, Center for Mathematics Readiness Texas State Universitysvmireles@txstate.edu(512) 245-2338

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