Comments on: FSU’s Professor Hu embarks on new study of whether Bright Futures “works” (Hint: it would if the eligibility requirements included more math and science) http://bridgetotomorrow.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/fsus-professor-hu-embarks-on-new-study-of-whether-bright-futures-works-hint-it-would-if-the-eligibility-requirements-included-more-math-and-science/ A strong K-20 pipeline for physical scientists and engineers builds a Bridge to Tomorrow for students and society. Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:36:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Doc Carr http://bridgetotomorrow.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/fsus-professor-hu-embarks-on-new-study-of-whether-bright-futures-works-hint-it-would-if-the-eligibility-requirements-included-more-math-and-science/#comment-1185 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:28:56 +0000 http://bridgetotomorrow.wordpress.com/?p=2741#comment-1185 You should rephrase that in the form of a quantitative question, and pass it on to Prof. Hu. I can think of no reason that he can’t include a correlation to HS science and math classes while also looking at the arbitrary 2.999/3.000 cut line.

The biggest problem might be that there appears to be no consistent definition of “precalculus” in HS. State-wide data and students from area schools both show that there are students passing precalculus who cannot do basic algebra as judged by both the SAT and our math placement test. That would really mess up any statistical analysis.

BTW, I would argue that “no scholarship” -vs- “huge scholarship” is a bigger factor than a small gpa bump. Working through college is a huge deal. Might be better to look at 2.9/3.0/3.1 to see a GPA regression and decouple the scholarship effect.

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