Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Vandenbussche, Southern Polytechnic State University; William George Griffiths IV, Southern Polytechnic State University; Christina R Scherrer, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

) students. The only well-studied aspect of homework policy is the comparison of outcomes in courses using onlinehomework versus traditional homework. There are many studies comparing these two deliverymethods at varying levels1,4,5,6,8,11,12,19. Most studies conclude that web-based homework issuperior to (or at least not inferior to) traditional homework in terms of homework completionand student outcomes.Aside from studies of online homework, however, there are very few other studies investigatingthe effect of various mathematics course policies on homework completion and studentsuccess. The most recent study in this area7 compared the effect of weekly collectedassignments versus weekly quizzes in a Calculus I course. There was no

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael R. Allen, Department of Mathematics; Dale A. Wilson, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

Paper ID #7596Making Mathematics Relevant to Engineering StudentsDr. Michael R. Allen, Department of Mathematics Dr. Allen earned his PhD in Statistics from the University of Georgia in 1997 and currently holds a full time Associate Professor position in the Department of Mathematics at Tennessee Technological Univer- sity. His research interests include edgeworth expansions, time series, bootstrapping, online pedagogy and fractional calculus and has published papers on four of these five subjects. He minored in education and physics as an undergrad and obtained a Master in mathematics. Recently, he earned a Bachelors in