The Central Indiana STEM Talent Expansion Program at IUPUI, funded by NSF, is creating an Indiana pipeline and a university culture change to increase the number of students obtaining STEM degrees. The project addresses initiatives for transforming un...
The Central Indiana STEM Talent Expansion Program at IUPUI, funded by NSF, is creating an Indiana pipeline and a university culture change to increase the number of students obtaining STEM degrees. The project addresses initiatives for transforming undergraduate education, targeted at retention and persistence, which resulted in increasing the number of graduates by 10% per year for 4 consecutive years. This paper focuses on transformations in calculus to lower the DFW rate and increase the first-year retention rate. Initiatives include activity-based recitations to transform a standard lecture format course into an active learning format, which increased final exam scores.