Information for External Reviewers
This page was created to organize materials for external reviewers during my 2018 application for promotion. It now serves as a general archive of my publications from 2002 through 2018, and as an example if others wish to set up similar pages for their promotion reviews.Research Overview
Please read the Research Overview. Also available in Word or PDF.Current CV
My full CV, including publication history from 1993 to the present, is available here.Governing policies
College policy is the most accurate guide to research evaluation criteria. Department policy is undergoing revisions to align with college policy.- University T&P Policy
- College T&P Policy
- Current Math Dept T&P Policy (Update in progress, following recent update to college policy.)
- Draft Math Dept T&P Policy (Unfinished, but compliant with college policy.)
Publications
Organized by research project. More detail is available in the Research Overview. For all publications in one book-marked PDF, click here.Quantum Topology
- (2002 ) The Kauffman bracket skein as an algebra of observables
- (2003) The Yang-Mills measure in the Kauffman bracket skein module
- (2005) The Kauffman bracket skein module of a twist knot exterior
ALEKS Project — Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- (2008) Enhancing precalculus curricula with e-learning: implementation and assessment
- (2009) Improving students' learning in precalculus with e-learning activities and through analyses of students' learning styles and motivational characteristics
- (2009) The implementation of an online mathematics placement exam and its effects on student success in precalculus and calculus
- (2012) Using online assessment and practice to achieve better retention and placement in precalculus and calculus
Calculus Transformation — SOTL and Institutional Change
- (2012) Both sides of the equation: learner and teacher
- (2015) Coherent calculus course design: creating faculty buy-in for student success
- (2016) Longitudinal success of Calculus I reform
- (2017) Calculus reform - increasing STEM retention and post-requisite course success while closing the retention gap for women and underrepresented minority students
- (2018) The crux: promoting success in Calculus II (Preprint. Peer reviewed and accepted.)
Other Student Success Projects
- (2011) The Idaho science talent expansion program: freshman orientation for stem majors
- (2016) Support model for transfer students utilizing the STEM scholarship program
- (2016) Instructional faculty development and student success
- (2017) Enhancing STEM majors’ college trigonometry learning through building mobile apps
- (2017) Assessing the STEM landscape: the current instructional climate survey and the evidence-based instructional practices adoption scale