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Victoria S Akin

Victoria S Akin

Associate Professor of the Practice of Mathematics
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Scholarly Works - Conferences

Unnecessarily Hard: How Student Emotions, Course Components and Rigor Collide in Calculus

Conference http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/RUME27_Proceedings.pdf · March 1, 2025 In this poster, we present a case study of Kappa University (KU), a private institution in the Southeastern United States. Our case study focuses on students’ experiences of their introductory calculus courses, which they often describe as “unnecessarily h ... Link to item Cite

WIP: Establishing Peer Observation of Engineering Teaching (POET) as a More Effective Means of Evaluating Teaching

Conference ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings · January 1, 2025 This work in progress paper investigates a model for peer observation of engineering teaching (POET) and its potential use in regular evaluations for instructors. Applying lessons learned from an initial pilot program as well as perspectives from the liter ... Full text Cite

Self-reported Student Motivations to Participate in DEI Service Work

Conference http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/RUME26_Proceedings2024-letter.pdf · February 22, 2024 The proposed poster describes information collected from a case study of a DEI initiative in the math department at Kappa University (KU). A Networked Improvement Community (NIC) of faculty members and administrators began meeting monthly to discuss DEI in ... Cite