PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2018
San Diego, California
Calculus I Instructors’ Desires to Improve Their Teaching
Page: 1730
As calculus is a course required for many undergraduate programs, several studies over the past decade have examined aspects that create successful calculus programs in the United States. While many of these studies have looked at the teaching practices and beliefs of calculus instructors, none have focused on instructors’ desires to improve their teaching. The goal of this research is to examine how desires to improve teaching vary among different types of instructors (GTAs, instructors, tenured faculty, etc.), and how institutional or departmental expectations might influence those desires.