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A Researcher–Practitioner Partnership on Remedial Math Contextualization in Career and Technical Education Programs
Author(s) -
Wang Xueli,
Wang Yan,
Prevost Amy
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
new directions for community colleges
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0733
pISSN - 0194-3081
DOI - 10.1002/cc.20250
Subject(s) - remedial education , general partnership , contextualization , community college , pedagogy , mathematics education , professional development , sociology , medical education , psychology , political science , computer science , medicine , law , interpretation (philosophy) , programming language
This chapter documents a partnership between university‐based researchers and community college instructors and practitioners in their collective pursuit to improve student success in manufacturing programs at a large urban 2‐year technical college, presenting an example of a contextualized instructional approach to teaching developmental math, tightly coupled with research activities that inform instructional practices.