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Keywords

quantitative skills support, institutional change

Abstract

In our keynote address at the 2025 National Numeracy Network Annual Meeting, we introduced the framework we developed for considering four domains of an institution’s quantitative skills/reasoning support ecosystem that includes bridge programs with a quantitative component, approaches to assessing readiness, curricular on-ramps, and supplementary support. We believe this ecosystem framework has the potential to help campus leaders coordinate institutional efforts around student success in areas connected to students’ quantitative preparation. This keynote highlighted the idea that coordination of stakeholders and their engagement with domains of the ecosystem fall along a spectrum. We provide approaches for using this framework to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of their institutional quantitative skills support ecosystem, no matter where efforts fall along this spectrum. We provide possible activities to advance conversations for strengthening the ecosystem including identifying collaboration partners, working toward a shared vision among project stakeholders, and examining initiatives past and planned. All of these approaches can help faculty and staff to leverage their skills and experiences in STEM classrooms or support centers to work together towards institutional change.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5038/1936-4660.19.2.1533

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