Agenda

Introductions

Lisa Key Brown and Alan Tussy

Module Content

Content and features specific to redesign

Enhanced WebAssign

NC EWA course

EWA Improvements released in November

YouBook (interactive eBook corresponding to printed modules)

Modularization – Conceptual/Contextual

Streamlining content and reducing curricular

redundancies

Implementing new diagnostic and assessment

tools and policies that link to the modules

Alignment with college level courses and

competencies and with DPI’s efforts to improve

the college readiness of HS grads

Professional development plan for instructors

implementing the new curriculum

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Tussy – A Modular Curriculum for North Carolina

Aligned with the outcomes of each module

Rich applications before most sections

Many contextual problems in each section

Enhanced WebAssign – One Code for all modules for the Life of Edition

Master Course with all modules – Coordinator Account

Multiple Problems available – No limit on problems used from other Cengage books

Statewide GOALS:

Mastery approach; Contextualized Applications and

Modules

4 Textbooks

Conceptual Student Learning Outcomes

1.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of integers

within contextual application problems

1.2 Correctly represent integers on a number line

1.3 Demonstrate the correct use of additive inverses

1.4 Evaluate the absolute value of a number

1.5 Apply integer operations in solving contextual application

problems

1.6 Correctly apply the associative and commutative properties

1.7 Demonstrate understanding of exponents by converting

between exponential and expanded form

1.8 Evaluate exponents

1.9 Calculate the square root of numbers containing perfect

squares

1.10 Evaluate integer expressions by using the correct order of

operations

1.11 Distinguish between appropriate use of area and perimeter

formulas to solve geometric application problems

1.12 Represent the events of a geometric application problem

included in this module pictorially and evaluate the correct

solution using the appropriate formula

The Module

section

objectives

match the

state learning

outcomes

The Module

Tests have

problems

exactly like

the

suggested

problems.

Gives

detailed

explanations

for each step

of the

examples

Module 4, p. 47

Module 4, pp. 29-32

Module 4, pp. 29-32

Module 4, p. 18Module 4, p. 33

Language of Algebra

Success Tips and Caution

Plus many more

Tussy – A Modular Curriculum for North

Carolina

Aligned with the outcomes of each module

Rich applications before most sections

Many contextual problems in each section

Enhanced WebAssign – One Code for all

modules for the Life of Edition

Master Course with all modules – Coordinator

Account

Multiple Problems available – No limit on

problems used from other Cengage books

Fall 2011 - Beta-tested - Taught the content within Math 070 using our current textbook but supplementing with conceptual and contextual group activities we had developed.

Spring 2012 - Piloted DMA 4-week modules at a satellite campus

Summer 2012 - Full implementation using the Prototype Book

Fall 2013 – Started using Tussy Booklets and Pre-built Enhance WebAssign

Departmental Blackboard course for all faculty with syllabi, assignment sheets, conceptual activities, class notes, quizzes, etc.

Seated Classes– 17 days with 3 transition days

3 days - 50 min. labs/2 days – 75 min. group activities

2 days/nights – 60 min. lab/ – 90 min. group activities

Online Classes with Proctored Exams

250 points/300 points to Retest

100-EWA , 100-Bookwork, 100-Quizzes

Testing on WebAssign- Lockdown Browser and

Password protected

Required Remediation – F2F-Paper and Online

14 day grace period

Self-enroll or roster upload

Scheduling feature- Easy to copy modules

every 4 weeks and keeps all settings

Coordinator - manages all the EWA courses

for the department

Pretest

Learning Unit – Video, Vocabulary, Guided Step

Problems

Lab – Read It, Watch It, Practice Another

Version, Master It

Quiz – Test Knowledge without any help buttons

5 Submissions - for all the above per question

2 Tests – 80% Mastery – Different questions not

just different numbers with the use of pools

50% conceptual/contextual problems

Lockdown Browser & Password Protected

Resources – Multiple videos for each section of

the book – closed caption

Syllabi, Handouts, Powerpoints, etc.

Personal Study Plan – Students use as a study

aid before the module test to target areas

he/she may need to study more

YouBook – Put YouTube videos, hyperlinks, and

handouts inside the YouBook– book is saved

under your name – customize to your liking

Intro to WebAssign – Get acquainted with how

to input answers into the software

Gradebook-Input other grades

Email – Email students who are not doing well

Calendar – Visual for students to see due dates

Notification link – Email alerts to students

Communication – Ask your teacher and

automatic extensions

Show your work and Upload a file

Time Estimates per question

Conditional Release

Pass rate – Better pass rate than 16 week courses as

we progress through the modules

Retention – 20-25% higher than 16 week courses

(4-week class – 2 absences)

Pace

Students taking too many classes along with DMA’s

Final assessment is 50% conceptual/contextual and no

co-requisite for reading

Registration – Students can not register themselves

Financial Aid – only ¾ of entitlement at the beginning

of semester – ¼ at end of semester

Changing a student’s schedule between 4 week

sessions who are not successful –(3 times a semester)

Scheduler - 1 course = 4 modules – more classes keyed into Datatel

Student Services- students could not register themselves online

Registrar – More rosters and movement of students every 4 weeks

Financial Aid –Money is prorated throughout the semester

Training - All advisors and counselors in the college

Communication – Informing students about the change

More tests per module

Design YouBook for department

Look at statistical data to see what is

working

Evaluate students at the end of each module

Keep accessing what we are doing and how

can we improve!

?Questions? Lisa Key Brown919-718-7362

lkbrown@cccc.edu

Alan Tussy

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