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Quantitative Reasoning for Business An Inquiry-Based Approach Assessment in a QR course for Business Students Victor Piercey Joint Math Meetings 2014 Baltimore MD Quantitative Reasoning for Business An Inquiry-Based Approach Auto Finance

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Assessment in a QR course for Business Students Victor Piercey Joint Math Meetings 2014 Baltimore MD

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Auto Finance Specialist:

“I never was very good at math.”

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Course objectives:

  • 1. Formulas
  • 2. Prop’l Reasoning
  • 3. Linear Functions
  • 4. Exponential Functions
  • 5. Problem Solving
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About the course:

  • 1. IBL
  • 2. Conceptual
  • 3. Authentic Bus. Prblms
  • 4. Linked with ENGL
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Assessment Principles:

  • 1. Mastery – what is learned by end?
  • 2. Holistic rubrics
  • 3. Meaningful (minimized timed exams)

How did it work??

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Explorations and Portfolio Examples:

  • 1. Fry Efficiency
  • 2. Stock Splits
  • 3. Linearity
  • 4. Exponentiality
  • 5. Credit Card Problem
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Capstones

  • 1. Student loan interest

deduction

  • 2. Track grades/gpa
  • 3. Tax policy analysis
  • 4. US federal debt
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Project

  • 1. Teach yourself something
  • 2. Explain it
  • 3. Solve problems
  • 4. Share your learning
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Other

  • 1. HW
  • 2. Exams
  • 3. Group‐Quizzes
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Informal Assessment

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Assessing the Course:

  • 1. Tracking
  • 2. Anxiety/Beliefs
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Assessment in the Writing Course:

  • 1. Formula Assignment
  • 2. Career Project
  • 3. US Federal Debt
  • 4. Letters
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Student quotes: “I realized the reasoning behind equations, what it meant and how people put them together.” “You converted a person who loathed math into someone who finally understands it.”

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Student quotes: “The discussions are amazing and can carry on for days, but by the end, you understand it and you are able to teach it to yourself.” “The English course fits right together with the Math class … Who would have thought Math and English could be so adjacent?”

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Future Plans:

  • 1. two courses
  • 2. quant. ethics
  • 3. linked + unlinked
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Future Assessment:

  • 1. tracking/affect
  • 2. QLRA
  • 3. Habits of Mind
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Watch for opportunities! Victor Piercey piercev1@ferris.edu @VictorPiercey1