St. Lawrence University Context part of QuIRK:PKAL Workshop 08
1. What is the status of Quantitative Reasoning programming on your campus? Currently, St. Lawrence (SLU) does not have an explicit graduation requirement for QR. Instead, students are required to take one ...

Action Plans part of QuIRK:PKAL Workshop 08
Context:Prior to coming to the workshop, each institution summarized QR programming, leaning goals, and assessment on their campus. In addition, teams identified institutional barriers and assets that may help ...

Workshop Notebook part of QuIRK:PKAL Workshop 08
The notebook below contains the workshop agenda and materials for plenary and break-out sessions in addition to action plan information. You will receive a hardcopy when you register at Carleton. Please review the ...

Participant Workshop Logistics part of QuIRK:PKAL Workshop 08
QuIRK PKAL Workshop at Carleton College Quantifying Quantitative Reasoning in Undergraduate Education: Alternative Strategies for the Assessment of Quantitative Reasoning October 10 - 12, 2008 Dates and Times ...

The 5th Grade Playground Project part of QuIRK:For Carleton Faculty
Neither writing nor quantitative reasoning are ever "completely learned." Rather, in both cases, students build on previous skills to attain a greater degree of sophistication. We can see this in an ...

NSF Project Summary part of QuIRK
INTELLECTUAL MERIT "Many educated adults remain functionally innumerate" (NCED 2001). Several blue-ribbon reports have warned that the inability to reason with numbers weakens individuals in their ...

Interested in learning more? part of QuIRK
If you would like to learn more about QuIRK's writing-based QR program or if you would like to visit Carleton for first-hand experience with our professional development or assessment workshops, contact Mija ...

QuIRK Support for Curriculum Reform at Carleton part of QuIRK:For Carleton Faculty
Revision of Existing Courses to Strengthen QR: Funding from an alumni donor allow us to support the preparation of revisions to existing courses intended to help students use, write about, and present quantitative ...

Information for Faculty about QuIRK RA Program part of QuIRK:For Carleton Faculty
Faculty outside "Science and Math" who are taking their research or teaching in a new, quantitative direction can apply for a team of 2-3 students with statistics training to serve as research ...

Writing With Numbers 2 part of QuIRK:For Carleton Faculty
Recent years have seen an explosion of data availability as computer memory has expanded and the internet has dramatically reduced the cost of posting and accessing data. Unfortunately, students' ability to ...