The math department has written common final exam questions (CFEQ's) for some of our courses. The department's CFEQ's need to make up 50% of your final exam. You write the other 50%.
All courses must have a comprehensive final exam. With the sequential nature of math, a "comprehensive" final could cover the main new concepts of the course, which can be in the last half of the course.
Please make sure that you are teaching and testing the common final exam material throughout the semester, so that you do not have to cram it in at the end.
Rationale for CFEQ's
The department uses CFEQ's
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to ensure that students exiting one course have the skills and abilities they will need in the next course, as specified on the
course outlines;
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to assess student learning across courses and improve our courses and programs (as required for accredittion).
As a part of our department's ongoing efforts at course and program improvement and as part of the college's conformity to accreditation standards, we will be collecting and assessing your students' work on their final exams. This is part of our on-going course and program evaluation, to help our department assess its effectiveness and make necessary improvements.
How to get the CFEQ's
Common final exam questions have been written for Math 9, 12, 15, 25, 25AX, 25BX, 30, 35, and 37. You can get the common final exam questions from an LMC computer (go to My Computer J:\CFEQ's). You can also request the CFEQ's from the Math Department chair.
If you are teaching any other course, you need to write the entire final exam yourself. If you are teaching Math 34, please see the section below on Math 34.
Collection of final exams
The department will collect final exams after you grade them so that we can assess student learning across courses and improve our programs. After you are finished grading, please submit the complete set of your students’ final exams and indicate which students were passing the course at the time of the final exam. Please put the student final exams, as well as one blank copy, in a sealed envelope the final exam box which will be in MA1-141. (Math 25 professors: please submit your Math 25 exams to the Math DE lead instead.
Exams will be kept secure and confidential, and each professor's exams will be coded to preserve anonymity. Exams will be returned to you next semester after flex, if you request them. If you prefer to make copies of the exams, please use the 48-hour service in Cental Services in the college complex to keep our costs down.
The names of all professors and their students will be kept strictly confidential. We are collecting student work to assess and improve our courses and programs. The exams and student work will not be used for evaluation of individual professors, staffing decisions, hiring decisions, or tenure decisions. This departmental assessment of student work will not be used for grading students; you have the sole authority to assign your students’ grades.
Math 34
The Math 34 common final exam questions are currently in transition. In SP 07 and FA 07 a group of 14 instructors worked together to revise the course outline and design an assessment project to help us improve the teaching and learning of introductory statistics. We encourage you to participate in our assessment project by using both of the following two items as part (or all?) of your final exam: J:\CFEQ's\Math 34 problem for the final exam 11.18.07.doc and J:\CFEQ's\Math 34 CAOS_test.pdf. The CAOS test is a national multiple choice test that is conceptually oriented. Email Myra for practice multiple choice tests you can use with your students to help them prepare for this part of the final. The common final exam problem was jointly written by the group of LMC math instructors.
If you don't want to give this multiple choice test, you may use the old questions J:\CFEQ's\Math 34 old Final Exam Problems.doc.
The department is currently offering a series of retreats to investigate and share ideas for teaching statistics. The aforementioned assessment project is part of this work. If you want to join this effort, please contact Myra (x3135) or Poku (x3365) for more info.
How to help
The department is currently [Nov 2007] working on writing and class testing CFEQ's for Math 34. If you want to join this effort, please contact Myra Snell (925-439-2181 x3135).
If you would like to help the department analyze student work on the final exams, then please attend our flex workshop next semester on assessing student work
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