Student evaluations indicated that at the beginning of the semester to much time was spent on things that they already knew. Course continues to be monitored through focus group activities. As a follow-up to the assessment of Differential Equations in the F' 98, a focus group activity was held midway through the spring semester. Students requested, at this time, that the course include three tests and a final rather than a mid term and a final. Differential Equations was revised to have three tests and a final.
Course continues to be monitored through focus group activities.
Spring '99 Faculty Survey Undergraduate Survey Inconsistency exists in the requirements of the performance criteria for the departmental Goals and Objects. Performance criteria for the student survey was revised to be consistent with the requirements of the faculty survey. Both the Faculty survey and the undergraduate survey will be reviewed and the results compared during the next cycle of the assessment process. Fall '99 Faculty raised concerns In the Fall of 1996, a new curriculum had been implemented for the Calculus sequence. Now that the curriculum had been in place for 2 years, there was a need to evaluate the effectiveness of that curriculum.