Reisel, J. R., & Jablonski, M., & Rineck, L., & Munson, E. V., & Hosseini, H. (2012, June), Analysis of Math Course Placement Improvement and Sustainability Achieved Through a Summer Bridge Program  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--20946

\bibitem{asee_peer_20946}
  Reisel, J. R., \& Jablonski, M., \& Rineck, L., \& Munson, E. V., \& Hosseini, H. (2012, June), \emph{Analysis of Math Course Placement Improvement and Sustainability Achieved Through a Summer Bridge Program}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--20946

John R. Reisel, Marissa Jablonski, Leah Rineck, Ethan V. Munson, and Hossein Hosseini.  "Analysis of Math Course Placement Improvement and Sustainability Achieved Through a Summer Bridge Program".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/20946 Internet.  24 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_20946}
  John R. Reisel, Marissa Jablonski, Leah Rineck, Ethan V. Munson, and Hossein Hosseini.
  "Analysis of Math Course Placement Improvement and Sustainability Achieved Through a Summer Bridge Program".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/20946 Internet.  24 Apr, 2024

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AB  -   Analysis of Math Course Placement Improvement and Sustainability             Achieved Through a Summer Bridge ProgramAbstractAs part of an NSF-supported project, a summer bridge program for incoming engineeringand computer science freshmen was conducted in 2009 and 2010. The primary purposeof this program was to improve the mathematics course placement for incoming studentswho initially place into a course below Calculus I as determined through a mathplacement examination. The students retake the university’s math placementexamination at the end of the bridge program to determine if they may enroll into a moreadvanced mathematics course. Generally, if a student improves his or her mathplacement, the program is considered successful for that student. However, it is alsoimportant in evaluating the success of the program to consider the performance of thestudents in their Fall semester math courses.The mathematics portion of the bridge program centers on using the ALEKS softwarepackage for targeted, self-guided learning. The program took place exclusively in an on-campus format, and also featured a required residential component and additionalengineering activities for the students. The program’s duration was 4 weeks, andstudents were expected to improve their math placement by at least one semester. It isexpected that improving their math placement will reduce the student’s time-to-graduation which should in turn improve retention rates and eventually graduation rates.Data from the 2009 and 2010 cohorts have been collected and analyzed to judge theeffectiveness of the program with respect to both improving the students’ math placementand the students’ performance in future math courses. A lower percentage of students(69%) improved their math course placement in the 2009 cohort, but all categories ofbridge program students performed as well as the class average in the Fall 2009 semester.For the 2010 cohort, students succeeded at improving their math placement at a higherrate (83%), but the overall performance of the cohort in their Fall 2010 semester mathcourses was not as good as the previous year’s cohort’s first-semester performance.The changes made in the program between 2009 and 2010 are discussed in the paper, asare the results of the programs and subsequent math course performance. Furtherrevisions made for a 2011 program are also described.
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