Reframing Assessment & Evaluation: AI in a Thinking Classroom

In this interactive and engaging 90-minute presentation, math educators will have the opportunity to delve into the assessment and evaluation aspects inspired by Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms framework. With an emphasis on creating harmony and balance in educational settings, educators will have the opportunity to explore how we can integrate assessment and evaluation practices into the classroom that promote a deep mathematical understanding and foster critical thinking.

Led by Robb Caporicci, Learning Coordinator of Curriculum Implementation in Thames Valley DSB, this session will highlight the potential uses of AI, specifically within the realm of assessment and evaluation. Participants will be able to explore how AI can be leveraged to support diverse learners and to help encourage all students to be successful.

Join us to explore innovative approaches to assessment and evaluation, all while learning ways in which AI can be used to amplify student success in mathematics. Transform your classroom into a harmonious space where every student has the opportunity to thrive.

Robb Caporicci Thames Valley District School Board

The Balance of Learning: Aligning Technology and Assessment for Student Success

In today’s evolving educational landscape, the integration of hybrid learning models is key to fostering student success in mathematics. HLS is committed to unifying and harmonizing learning and assessment by providing innovative tools that enhance both in-person and digital instruction. Our latest updates to the instructor dashboards offer real-time insights, empowering educators with the data they need to support student progress effectively. By transforming information into meaningful analytics, these dashboards create a more personalized and engaging learning experience. Our enhanced exam functions will allow for honest student interactions while balancing security to inform instructors and assist with academic integrity judgments. This feature ensures improved summative assessment outcomes in a hybrid environment for both educators and learners.
Join us as we explore how technology-driven solutions can bring clarity, collaboration, and balance to the mathematics classroom—bridging the gap between traditional and hybrid learning for lasting student success.
James Howell and Harsha Varlani, Harris Learning Solutions

Upholding Academic Integrity: How MyLab Helps Deter and Reduce Student Cheating

In today’s digital age, maintaining academic integrity is more challenging and crucial than ever. Educators are constantly seeking effective tools and strategies to deter and reduce student cheating while fostering a culture of honesty and responsibility. This session, “Upholding Academic Integrity: How MyLab Helps Deter and Reduce Student Cheating,” is designed to provide educators with insights into leveraging MyLab’s features to promote academic honesty. Join us for an in-depth exploration of how MyLab, a comprehensive online learning platform, supports academic integrity through its innovative tools and functionalities.
Kelly Halliday Pearson/Georgian College

Maximize Student Success and Instructor Empowerment: Using WebAssign for Enhanced Course Management and Learning Experiences

College math courses can be challenging for both students, who work hard to keep up with course content, and instructors who balance course management and student support. Join us to explore how WebAssign can help on both fronts. From pre-course remediation to in-question help and robust practice and assessment activities, WebAssign supports students from before classes begin to acing their final exams. For instructors, comprehensive course management tools, student performance insights, and a vast library of diverse content will enable you to deliver the best course experience while saving valuable time.
Scott Brayne and Darcey Pepper Cengage

Engineered for Excellence: The Data-Driven Power of Knewton Alta

For Knewton Alta, Wiley’s adaptive learning courseware, the status quo just isn’t good enough. We dare to give learners and instructors more: the best personalized technology, impactful content, and actionable data. Join us to hear how Knewton Alta Calculus is evolving to provide students with the support they need at the moment they need it, and instructors with technology to maximize outcomes. Learn about updates based on data and user feedback, like sub-Learning Objectives, scaffolded questions, our “never stuck” student agency features, and more.

Hayley Muñoz and Reilly Ballantyne Wiley

Leveraging AI in your Math course to achieve Harmony with ALEKS

Discover how ALEKS combines bite-sized learning modules, authentic assessments, and free-response questions to promote active learning and critical thinking. By blending adaptive machine learning AI with robust educational tools, ALEKS embodies harmony in education— bringing together innovation, pedagogy, and engagement to empower today’s
students to succeed. During this presentation, we will explore how ALEKS supports the customization of course delivery to align with your desired learning outcomes. You’ll see how this flexibility allows educators to address diverse student needs and promote meaningful engagement with the course content. Participants will gain insights into ALEKS’s innovative features that enhance Math instruction and active learning, including Integrated Excel and Hypothesis Testing tools.

Greg Nosal and John Kalafatis McGraw Hill

Statcat.ca – Introductory statistics through the prism of data types

If you are thinking about changing your intro stats course to help students bring meaning to numbers, then please join me in a presentation with activities and
discussion on an approach that is grounded in data types rather than mathematical structures. I’ll outline the differences between the course and standard textbook courses and introduce a few assessment items and exercises including an app that I’ve developed www.statcat.ca. What I learned from this approach is that noisy math-lite content gets in the way of key aspects of intro stats, and removing it allows us to focus on reasoning about and with numbers. Find out more about this approach at here.
Taras Gula George Brown College

Math and Music: The Harmonious Duet!
Come and witness the amazing duo of math and music! Unlock the mysteries of
musical scales, pitch, timbre, and tunings, using trigonometry, ratios, exponents and logarithms, radicals, and more. Discover how scales and songs can be constructed using symmetric groups and witness a live demonstration by a real-life mathemusician!
(Note: this is a follow-up to the presentation given in 2019 – I will be reviewing some of the same foundational concepts for reference but have included lots of new material as well!)
Sean Saunders Sheridan College

Incorporating Authentic Assessments in Math and Stats courses.

Digital classroom assessment is becoming increasingly scrutinized because of the vast amounts of online help tools available. Evaluating foundational, pre-requisite knowledge and balancing it with current technology available to students is now a consistent challenge for instructors. This presentation will focus on lessons learned, mistakes made, and new ideas for finding harmony in the classroom.
A pure regression to data-based analysis by hand is too cumbersome when teaching statistics, yet a computer-based solution may open concerns of academic integrity.
Current techniques for delivering authentic assessment vary depending on principle and subject, I will share my experience in deploying these in both mathematics and statistics courses.
Join me in an exploration of finding how to get to authentic assessment as a college instructor, in a world where Artificial Intelligence is prevalent.

Lisa MacKay Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

Victorian to AI: How Subject Associations Shape Educators

This session considers subject associations that emerged from Victorian times. It considers the development of these organizations and the various facets they tend to engage with. Specific examples from the OAME/AOEM will be used, particularly around the 62-year progression of events that include the archive of the Ontario Mathematics Gazette, up to the ChatOAME AI. The connection between the two, by applying statistics to language, and the connection to current research will harmonize the session.
Tim Sibbald Schulich School of Education, Nipissing University

Jamovi – an opensource option for statistical software

There are many fantastic software options for statistics courses, but the cost or complexity/coding restrict only the most dedicated classes from using them. Enter Jamovi; a free, Open Source, multi-platform, point-and-click statistics system, built on the ever-popular R platform. Compatibility for all platforms and a web interface creates harmony amongst the students with access to an advanced statistical analysis tools wherever they are. Don’t see what you’re looking for; the platform is opensource and houses an excellent guide to creating your own modules. In this workshop we talk about statistical software, explore Jamovi from an introductory and advanced statistics lens, and look at the module creation process and current offerings.

Cameron Redsell-Montgomerie Mohawk College

Harmonizing the delivery of degree-level statistics content in a polytechnic teaching environment

The first cohort of Seneca’s Honours Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology (BBTA) is now in their second year of the program. I was responsible for developing and subsequently teaching the Research & Statistics course in the program, with its first iteration in Fall of 2024. During this talk, I will reflect on my experience, including the waves of successes and struggles. What can I take away from this initial experience to further promote harmony in the course?
Monica Wong Seneca Polytechnic

Beyond Formulas: Cultivating Creativity and Improvisation in Statistics Classrooms
As artificial intelligence masters the world of large data sets, complex formulas, and
specific procedures, statistics education must pivot towards human creativity and
reasoning. This presentation explores how improvisation in statistics classrooms can
transform learning, moving students beyond basic processes into a more creative
headspace and a deeper understanding of statistical concepts. We will examine some
instructional strategies that can be attempted in your classroom, to encourage students
to think creatively and critically about introductory statistics curriculum, including
statistical measures, probability, estimation, hypothesis testing, and correlation.
Sean Saunders Sheridan College and Joshua Emmanuel Humber Polytechnic

Harmonizing the Parts: A Unified Model for Math Assessment and Remediation

How can we bring order to the varied and fragmented landscape of college mathematics education? This presentation introduces a unified assessment and remediation model that addresses the varied needs of students while fostering balance and fairness The model begins with diagnostic assessments that provide a detailed understanding of
each student’s skills, identifying gaps and strengths. Adaptive learning pathways deliver personalized remediation in line with the college curriculum. By aligning student needs with instructional goals, the model ensures every learner is supported on their journey to success. Rooted in the principles of harmony and balance that define mathematics itself, this approach transforms learning into a cohesive and empowering experience.
Join us to explore how this model has achieved real-world impact, creating an environment where students thrive. Together, let’s reimagine what’s possible in math education.

James Howell Harris Learning Solutions

OCMC Survey Results as a Springboard to Action

Results of the OCMC research sub-committee’s survey (May – Dec 2024) will be reported on – including the process of data collection. We will present just the highlights from roughly 500 responses (please review the summary report available at this link before the session), because we would like to use this opportunity to have a conversation about the role and scope of math education (and math education research) in Ontario colleges, and to energize OCMC’s mandate in the near and distant future.
Taras Gula George Brown College, David Thomson Conestoga College, and Cameron Redsell-Montgomerie Mohawk College

Testing in 3-Part Harmony – A New Approach to Evaluation Design

Do you struggle with writing test problems that evaluate students’ understanding of the basic concepts but also provide them with opportunities to apply those ideas and synthesize new information? Are your “challenge problems” routinely left blank, dragging down the overall results and even requiring grade adjustments? In this presentation, we will examine a new approach two professors took in their pre-health science math courses to address this problem. During this past year, they wrote 3 versions of their test problems to better engage the different learners at their various levels – Basic Melody, Intermediate Harmony, and Advanced Harmony – allowing students to select which problem to solve to demonstrate their level of understanding. Come take part in the discussion as they share their results, including the successes and the challenges, and help to propel this work into its second movement!

Sean Saunders Sheridan College and Anthony Tavares Sheridan College