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Core Course Analysis for Undergraduate Students in Mathematics (1605.00328v1)

Published 2 May 2016 in math.HO and stat.AP

Abstract: In this work, we develop statistical tools to understand core courses at the university level. Traditionally, professors and administrators label courses as "core" when the courses contain foundational material. Such courses are often required to complete a major, and, in some cases, allocated additional educational resources. We identify two key attributes which we expect core courses to have. Namely, we expect core courses to be highly correlated with and highly impactful on a student's overall mathematics GPA. We use two statistical procedures to measure the strength of these attributes across courses. The first of these procedures fashions a metric out of standard correlation measures. The second utilizes sparse regression. We apply these methods on student data coming from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) department of mathematics to compare core and non-core coursework.

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