Phew! It’s been a while since any updates happened here so some work has gone out in the meantime.
First, a few mastery/standards-based testing (MBT) pieces got printed in the past year or so. I started working on designing and implementing these grading systems with Becky Swanson when I started at Mines in 2022, and our first write-ups about our experiences went out in Fall 2023. We created an extensive web resource with the help of Carter Moulton at the Trefny Center detailing our decision-making process and giving a preview of the results. Later that fall, we wrote a piece for IMAGE, the bulletin of the International Linear Algebra Society, to encourage other Linear Algebra instructors to try out MBT. Last summer, a results article was accepted for publication and recently appeared (with a companion blog post)in Teaching & Learning Inquiry, a journal of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL). A final practitioner article on instructor collaboration with campus teaching and learning centers is underway!
Meanwhile, Becky and I also wrote a blog post for the MAA Math Values blog on teaching postdoc positions and our collaborations. This then turned into an article in the January/February 2025 issue of MAA Focus magazine.
Finally, in January we finished a pre-print on Kohnert polynomials from a project started at GRWC in Milwaukee last summer. It is currently in submission, and hopefully will be published soon! See more on my Research page.
Another piece on math circles at the county jail has been accepted for publication, and will appear soon. Also, we are working on finishing one project on chromatic symmetric functions of unicyclic graphs very soon! I will try to post when these things get put out.