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From the Introduction, "Mathgrapher is a mathematical graphing tool for 2D and 3D functions and data. It includes linear and nonlinear curve fitting, integration and analysis of coupled ordinary differential equations (ODE's) and multi-dimensional iterative maps, matrix operations, Lindenmayer systems and some cellular automata." Though the site indicates that the MathGrapher hasn't been updated since 2007, the site was recently given a positive review by University of Wisconsin's Internet Scout Report.

By Benjamin Wardhaugh in Loci: Convergence, the online publication of the Mathematical Sciences Digital Library, Aug 2012. This article (with photographs) looks at two geometry "copybooks" created in the 1700s. The author provides detailed analysis of the math that each student is doing, as well as some biographical information about the students.

Fun article!

A program of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Statway focuses on helping community college students learn basic skills in statistics, data analysis, and quantitative reasoning as part of a one-year pathway. The ultimate goal of this pathway is preparation for college-level statistics. This home page to Statway also includes links to the project blog (called Pathways Connection) and to the project's mailing list. There are 19 community colleges affiliated with this project.

This paper sets out to demonstrate that creativity can be fostered in learners through use of such Web 2.0 technologies, and in particular, through tagging and its social form, folksonomy.

By Andy Lapham, Faculty of the Arts, Thames Valley University, London, UK. This paper from the Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on e-Learning includes a literature review and presents a cognitive analysis of tagging.

This is a working paper by Rebecca Wheeler (n.d.). This paper shows some of Wheeler's work on code-switching in the classroom, and includes analysis and teaching strategies.

From Learning Matters, Inc , a documentary that looks at community colleges. Analysis and supporting materials from the documentary, as well as links to podcasts.

From Frontline (PBS). Documentary asks the question: Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health care system? Analysis and supporting materials from the documentary, as well as a link to the program.

Presented by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, April 2010. This guide, "is the result of a year-long cross-foundation effort to develop common principles, approaches, and taxonomies to help staff decide how best to allocate time and resources for data collection and analysis." Link to the PDF of the full guide from this page.

By Jennifer Gonzalez in the Students section of the Chronicle of Higher Education, February 9 2011. Article announces the findings of a just-published early report, "Turning the Tide: Five Years of Achieving the Dream in Community Colleges," looking at five years of progress of the Achieving the Dream program in the 26 schools that joined in 2004. While the article cites that the changes are slow and small, there are bright spots, including the spread of a "culture of evidence" with more sophisticated data collection and analysis.

Part of Phil Taylor's Web Site, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK. This is an excerpt from his book, The Fine Art of Propaganda: A Study of Father Coughlin's Speeches by The Institute for Propaganda Analysis, and published in 1939.

By Tina Marie Macias in the advertiser. com (Louisiana), May 20, 2011. The author cites analysis by The Daily Advertiser (the print newspaper) that "the majority of 2010 ACT-tested Lafayette Parish students did not meet college readiness benchmarks." The article also compares the ACT as an indicator against TOPS (Taylor Opportunity for Students Award, a local grant).

By the SOURCE on Community College Issues, Trends & Strategies, May 2011. For this report, the SOURCE's editor-in-chief interviewed eleven community college leaders from across the country. Questions relate to: college readiness, remedial education, workforce development, educational technologies, student services, data analysis, funding/grants

Announcement of a Summary Report produced by Community College Research Center (CCRC) by Davis Jenkins, Shanna Smith Jaggars & Josipa Roksa, November 2009. The analysis looked at the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), studying a dataset of 24,140 first-time college students who enrolled in at least one VCCS course in summer or fall 2004. A PDF of the summary is available from this page, as is a link to the full-length technical version.

High schools and standards - encouraging critical thinking / analysis /perspectives

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This was one of three videos that R.O. (week 7, semester 3) shared with students in a lesson on video analysis.

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This was one of three videos that R.O. (week 7, semester 3) shared with students in a lesson on video analysis.

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This was one of three videos that R.O. (week 7, semester 3) shared with students in a lesson on video analysis.

Mike Rose's important and sensitive analysis of the struggles of underprepared students, including his own struggles, is eye-opening and moving.

This important early (1977) discussion of basic writing made a woke the world up to the concept of teaching basic writing and still provides important insights today. Her work on error analysis is very useful.

By Mina P Shaughnessy. Published by Oxford University Press, 1977. This guide examines student errors in thousands of papers to better understand the nature of writing errors among incoming college students.