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When was the last time you looked at your
syllabus? It’s probably been awhile…and
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you may not have noticed some of the UALR
policies that are listed in it that ALL UALR
students should know.
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Here is the UALR Student Email Policy.
The policy means that the UALR email system is
the university’s official means of communication.
If you are sent an email by a university
employee (including faculty) to this account, then
it can be assumed you have read the EMAIL.
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This is why it’s EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to
check your UALR email account at least twice a
week.
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Academic Dishonesty is a serious offense. For
our class, if you misrepresent your work in
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ALEKS as your own, you have someone else or
use an inappropriate means to complete the
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work, this is academic dishonesty. If it is caught,
you will be disciplined according to the
university policies and receive an grade of NC for
the course.
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Students may not take any developmental course
at UALR more than twice. The Pre-Core
Mathematics courses (Math 0321, Math 0322,
Math 0323, Math 0324) are developmental math
courses
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for which this policy will be enforced. This means
that if you take one of these courses and earn an
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NC or W, then you must pass the class the next
time you take the course, or you will
have to find another means to meet the pre-
requisites for your college-credit math class.
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I do not believe I will need to enforce this policy if
a student has given their best
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effort in the class. We have designed the
program for student success in the course
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and in their next math class.
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Now, for the answer to one last question that I
thought you might be interested in knowing.
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Why has UALR chosen to use ALEKS? There
are many different programs available to
assist students to learn math. We have chosen
to use ALEKS for several different reasons.
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Remember the goals of the Pre-Core Math
program: prepare you for College Algebra and
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Quantitative and Mathematics Reasoning
courses and provide you with the means to get to
those courses as quickly as possible.
To meet the first goal, the PCM program needed
to require mastery of algebra skills versus
‘passing exams’. UALR has support a
mastery-based learning program for over 10
years. The results show that students are more
prepared for their next math course than the
previous textbook-lecture-based program.
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So, the online system needed to be designed with
mastery-based learning model.
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To meet the second goal, the PCM program
needed to be a self-paced program which
allows you to by-pass any material that you
already have mastered previously. So, the
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online system needed to be flexible in completion
of material and accurately assess students on
on their current knowledge. The online system
that helps us meet both these goals is ALEKS.
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How does ALEKS do this? First, UALR has
identified the learning objectives/topics/skills, for a
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module. Then ALEKS assesses you to see what
skills/topics you already know. Based on
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this information, ALEKS determines the
skills/topics that you are ‘ready-to-learn’
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After a learning period, the “doing of math
homework”, ALEKS will take the time to re-
assess
your skills to inform you of your progress and
ensure the topics you are doing in
homework are appropriate. The learning-
assessment-learning cycle continues until you
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complete the module. Then you will be
assessed one more time in a proctored setting to
ensure that you have retained the necessary
skills to complete the module.
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Lastly, let me remind you why we have ‘weekly
work requirements.” Basically, we
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want you to reach your math potential in the PCM
program and be prepared for your next
math class as quickly as possible. To do this, it
takes time, quality time, to learn
the math skills you will need for the next class.
For those of you that have been working
the weekly requirements, I’m sure you have felt
the momentum you have been building. I call
it math momentum. Your brain gets accustomed
to being used in the special way to ‘do the
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math’ and it keeps wanting to do the math. Now,
if you been working the required hours, but
not making them quality math learning hours, you
will not understand this math momentum.
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Try it…quality math time WILL lead to progress
towards your math goal.
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Well, those are the policies that all UALR
students should know...there are others.
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I do hope you've read the UALR student
handbook.
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Now, it's time to continue on your path to math
success by "doing the math" to reach your math
potential.