Bullock, D., & Johnson, K. E., & Callahan, J. (2016, June), Longitudinal Success of Calculus I Reform  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.25580

\bibitem{asee_peer_25580}
  Bullock, D., \& Johnson, K. E., \& Callahan, J. (2016, June), \emph{Longitudinal Success of Calculus I Reform}
  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  10.18260/p.25580

Doug Bullock, Kathrine E. Johnson, and Janet Callahan.  "Longitudinal Success of Calculus I Reform".  2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2016.  https://peer.asee.org/25580 Internet.  23 Feb, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_25580}
  Doug Bullock, Kathrine E. Johnson, and Janet Callahan.
  "Longitudinal Success of Calculus I Reform".
  \emph{2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2016.
  https://peer.asee.org/25580 Internet.  23 Feb, 2025

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AB  - This paper describes the second year of an ongoing project to transform calculus instruction at State University. Over the past several years, Calculus I has undergone a complete overhaul that has involved a movement from a collection of independent, uncoordinated, personalized, lecture-based sections, into a single coherent multi-section course with an active-learning pedagogical approach. The overhaul also significantly impacted the course content and learning objectives.  The project is now in its fifth semester and has reached a steady state where the reformed practices are   normative within the subset of instructors who might be called upon to teach Calculus I. Gains from the project include a rise in the pass rate in Calculus I, greater student engagement, greater instructor satisfaction, a general shift toward active learning pedagogies, and the emergence of a strong collaborative teaching community.
 
Project leaders are seeking to expand these gains to other areas of the curriculum and to broaden the community of instructors who are fully accepting of the reforms.  Common concerns expressed by resisters include suspicion that pass rate gains are merely grade inflation or weakened standards, and that altering the traditional content of Calculus I leaves students unprepared for Calculus II. These concerns are not limited to resisters. Project participants and external stakeholders are well aware that success in Calculus I must propagate to be of value.  It would be irresponsible to push Calculus I reform without solid evidence that students are well prepared for Calculus II and other courses. It is highly likely that curriculum reforms at many institutions endure similar critiques.  In this paper we develop a response that we hope will be useful to change agents and campus leaders in many other settings. 
 
We address concerns about Calculus II readiness by conducting a natural experiment, tracking two cohorts of students through Calculus I and into Calculus II.  The treatment cohort consists of students who reach Calculus II after passing the reformed Calculus I.  The control cohort consists of students who reach Calculus II after passing non-reformed Calculus I at State University. There experiment has no designed randomizing, but enrollment data shows that both cohorts spread out across all sections of Calculus II with apparent randomness. Our research question is   “Does the treatment cohort perform any worse than the control cohort in Calculus II?” Data on pass rates and grades in Calculus II will show that the answer is “No”.  



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