QLAB – Overview

Overview

Timeline

Needs Assessment

Team Members

Information about Modules

Better support students who:

• Have opportunity gaps in their secondary school preparation
• Know how to use quantitative skills in isolation, but not in context

Shifting the perspective:

Move away from:  Faculty individually finding and developing resources to support students with varied quantitative skills preparation.  Students reviewing Q skills just enough to use them in a particular context.	Work towards: Collaborative development of online modules for just-in-time review and skill-building for multiple disciplines. Students seeing Q skills as broadly relevant and important to understand.

Process for developing modules that are relevant across disciplines and institutions:

Dialog: About scope and structure of modules About goals and approaches to using online resources in face-to-face courses About revisions Practice: Using modules supported by a faculty learning community. Using modules in unmentored mode. Reflection: On building the modules. On using the modules.

Process for engaging campus dialog leaders in discussion of quantitative skills support ecosystem: 

• Provost/dean names a campus dialog leader (CDL) for their institution.  
• CDLs meet with each other to discuss approaches & issues related to supporting Q skills on campus with a focus on bridge programs, placement exams, and peer tutoring. 
• CDLs gather information from relevant stakeholders their campuses. 
• CDLs meet with each other to learn about various campus approaches, and can apply for funding to engage in an activity on their campus.