PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2018
San Diego, California
The Emergence of a Video Coding Protocol to Assess the Quality of Community College Algebra Instruction
Page: 1464
The Evaluating the Quality of Instruction in Post-secondary Mathematics (EQIPM) is a video coding instrument that provides indicators of the quality of instruction in community college algebra lessons. The instrument is based on two existing instruments that assess the quality of instruction in K-12 settings—the Mathematical Quality of Instruction (MQI) instrument (Hill, 2014) and the Quality of Instructional Practices in Algebra (QIPA) instrument (Litke, 2015). EQIPM addresses three dimensions focused on quality of instruction via 17 codes. In this paper, we describe two codes: Instructors Making Sense of Procedures from the Quality of Instructor-Content Interaction dimension, and the Mathematical Errors and Imprecisions in Content or Language, a code spanning all three dimensions. The purpose of the paper is to illustrate what we have learned from these codes and the new instrument to advance our understanding of post-secondary mathematics instruction.