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Tracey Kiser is a doctoral candidate in the Teaching and Learning Department at the University of California, San Diego. Tracey's Dissertation Title is Students and Faculty Voices: Plugging Leaks in the Developmental Mathematics Pipeline. Her project is part of a larger study entitled Plugging leaks in the developmental math pipeline in the community college math sequence. Her dissertation work examines, what she perceives to be, a lack of support for low income and minority students who are struggling academically to persist through the community college developmental mathematics pipeline. Her research contributes to the gap in the literature and our knowledge about students’ learning needs; faculty perceptions of the students’ learning needs, and the ways their instructional practices address students’ learning needs. Her long-term research goals are to continue to use students’ and faculty voices to shed light on effective strategies for maximizing students’ success in developmental math classes, and the interactions between students’ social and physical environments that mediate their thinking and understanding of developmental mathematics.
