Using Site Visits to Strengthen Collaboration

Authors

Victor Piercey, Ferris State UniversityFollow
Rebecca Segal, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityFollow
Afroditi Filippas, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityFollow
Tao Chen, Laguardia Community CollegeFollow
Soloman Kone, Laguardia Community CollegeFollow
Rosalyn Hargraves, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityFollow
Jack Bookman, Duke University, Mathematics Department, North CarolinaFollow
John Hearn, Lee UniversityFollow
Debbie Pike, Saint Louis UniversityFollow
Kathy Williams PhD, San Diego State UniversityFollow

Publication Date

2020

Abstract

The SUMMIT-P project is a multi-institutional endeavor to leverage interdisciplinary collaboration in order to improve the teaching of undergraduate mathematics courses in the first two years of college. One goal of this work is to establish collaborative communities among the institutions involved. As part of the project, institutions visit one another on site visits that are structured according to a common protocol. The site visits have been valuable to the project. Participating institutions report the exchange of actionable ideas and feedback; members of the grant leadership team have used the site visits to direct the overall project, and evaluators have refined questions and identified trends that will help their assessment of the project. At a deeper level, the site visits have created a strong sense of community among those involved in every aspect of the SUMMIT-P project.

Volume

16

Issue

1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.25891/wpxj-gg40

Recommended Citation

Piercey, Victor; Segal, Rebecca; Filippas, Afroditi; Chen, Tao; Kone, Soloman; Hargraves, Rosalyn; Bookman, Jack; Hearn, John; Pike, Debbie; and Williams, Kathy PhD (2020) "Using Site Visits to Strengthen Collaboration," Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations: Vol. 16: No. 1, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jmsce_vamsc/vol16/iss1/4