The California Corequisite Initiative (CCI) is a systemwide effort to develop and widely share a set of tools to improve instruction, delivery, and equitable student outcomes in corequisite math courses. The initiative is a collaboration among several organizations under the direction of the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office.
A cornerstone strategy in supporting students in transfer-level math courses, corequisites can be highly effective in providing targeted interventions to students to improve foundational math knowledge and help them accelerate in the primary transfer-level math course content.
Through the CCI, the National Laboratory for Education Transformation (NLET) and its partner Pragya Systems will provide and co-develop with faculty a new technology-based tool to assist faculty and students in effective corequisite delivery called Just In Time Math.
Just In Time Math is a free, competency-based, and interactive platform for identifying individual strengths and gaps in math concepts and operations. It provides efficient, formative cycles of assessment and tutorials to provide feedback to students and accelerate them towards more complex math concepts.
While Just In Time Math will be foundational to the initiative, expert faculty and facilitators will work with a select group of CA Community College campuses to collaborate on effective practices for math departments and related administrative and support functions to improve corequisite offerings, strategies, and outcomes.
Strategies
Campuses and faculty are engage in the project in the following ways:
- Through determining the most effective practices for corequisite design and execution. This will involve engagement with Math department leadership, faculty, and related campus staff (tutoring center, counseling/advising, etc.). This will include an opportunity to pilot the beta version of the new Just In Time Math tools and iterate with the project team to continuously improve the platform and provide feedback on necessary elements to implement the tools for maximum impact with emphasis on equity and access (i.e., user feedback, internal processes, policy alignment, professional development).
- Through faculty members joining a systemwide workgroup to assist in the tuning and improvement of the Just In Time Math platform to select and organize the content, learning materials and formative assessment, particularly to customize it for a California Community College context of equity and access.
- Through CTE faculty and subject matter experts joining smaller workgroups to explore the application of Just In Time Math to three occupational pathways to design a WorkReady Math system that contextualizes and streamlines the math learning necessary for those occupations and skills.