PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2018
San Diego, California
Classroom Experiences of Students in a Community College Intermediate Algebra Course
Page: 1503
There is little understanding of the ways in which students experience developmental mathematics courses at community colleges (Crisp, Reyes, & Doran, 2015). This study investigates the instructional experiences of students in an Intermediate Algebra course using qualitative methods that rely on interviews, surveys, classroom observations and classroom artifacts. I aim to understand (1) what are the experiences of students in a developmental mathematics class at a community college and (2) how students make sense of particular experiences. The findings from this study will support college mathematics departments by providing evidence of the classroom instructional experiences of students.