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A Community Approach to Learning Calculus: Fostering Success for Underrepresented Ethnic Minorities in an Emerging Scholars Program

The Wisconsin Emerging Scholars Program (WESP) is a nonremedial, multicultural workshop approach to learning calculus that emphasizes community and collaboration. This approach is designed to foster substantial participation of underrepresented ethnic minority students and alleviate the problems of isolation and lack of support in a large, predominantly white university. Program participants consistently outperformed traditional calculus students. Contains 26 references. (Author/PVD)

• Author/Creator: Alexander, Baine B., Burda, Anne C., Millar, Susan B.
• Journal/Secondary Title: Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
• Number: 3
• Volume: 3
• Year: 1997

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Students
• Subject: Classroom Environment
• Subject: Cooperative Learning
• Subject: Minority Groups
• Subject: Undergraduate Students

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