students Kriselyn Cortado, Thalia Lawrence and Kristin Umakoshi were awarded the Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation Award in the Mathematics at the (SACNAS) conference in Salt Lake City, October 19–21. The SACNAS conference featured more than 1,000 student research presentations.
The students performed an ethnographic case study in a diverse college algebra classroom at 东精影业 West Oʻahu. They discovered a positive correlation among group work, student engagement and student mathematics self-efficacy, which in turn increases participation, enhances mathematics comprehension and elevates mathematics achievement.
“All of the made important contributions to their respective fields and winning the award was fantastic news for 东精影业 West O?ahu,” said Michael Furuto, 东精影业 West Oʻahu assistant professor of , who served as faculty advisor for the winning group. Furuto helped guide, direct and support the students’ research.
The three students were part of a contingent of 东精影业 West Oʻahu students and faculty who traveled to the conference. The group also included students Alexander Bautista, Morgan Dutkoski, Arion Northrup, Destiny Mabalot and Christine Baltazar, along with mentors Furuto and Assistant Professors Kamuela Yong, Olivia George and Megan Ross. Bautista, Dutkoski and Northrup also made presentations.
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—By Greg Wiles