Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jose R. Portillo, Universidad Galileo; Alberth E. Alvarado, Universidad Galileo ; Jorge Samayoa Ranero, Galileo University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

included in the INST are shown in Figure 1. Fig. 1. (a) Sample questions in the INST, original version in Spanish. (b) Translation to English.Since our goal was to detect those students with the highest probability of failure in calculus, theproblems selected to construct the INST evaluated only the most basic concepts in the areaspreviously mentioned. Even more, our test was divided in 4 sections, where each one contained10 questions about basic concepts, operatory skills and word problems (applications). Thosestudents who did not obtain a satisfactory grade (less than 60 out of 100 points) in this test wereenrolled in the Math Operatory Skills Laboratory (MOSL). MOSL is our approach to