Spring 2025 SECTION NEXT workshop

March 29th, 1:00pm-3:30pm, Saint Vincent College

1:00-1:30: Lunch

1:30-3:30: Creative Assessments and Surprising Sports Analytics, Rick Cleary

Creative Assessments and Surprising Sports Analytics (1:30-3:30)

Rick Cleary, Babson College

This two hour workshop will consist of two distinct but related sections. In the first hour, we look at some of the key suggestions on assessment from the MAA Instructional Practices Guide (https://maa.org/resource/instructional-practices-guide/ ) With some hands-on activities, we will see how to turn these evidence based practices from theory to application in creative ways that can be used in almost any course. In the second hour, we will discuss ways to connect many mathematics topics to applications in sports. People often assume a sports course in a math department will be all about “big data” but we will see how lots of math topics (linear algebra, optimization, voting/ranking methods, probability … even a little topology!) are useful. We will also discuss creative ways to assess these topics, utilizing the ideas from the first hour.