Instead of frustration, the student experiences success. Dr. Calvin Piston, Professor of Mathematics at JBU, will manage the project on the Siloam Springs campus. We re pleased to be included in the roll-out and anticipate helping more students who have trouble with their math courses. Our share of the grant will provide a dozen new computers and fund staff to implement the program. Courses taught in this new manner are self-paced but with deadlines.
More time is spent in the classroom on tutoring and less on formal lecturing.
We have better results than that at JBU because we re able to screen students and direct them into the right classes. Larger schools don t have that luxury. Still, this program can be extremely helpful to students who struggle with mathematics. The new computers will be up and operating at JBU in fall 2001. As part of the program, personnel will provide research statistics and data to Feldman and Mackey, co-principal investigators for the NSF grant.