Dr. D. A. Kouba
Dr. Uri Treisman, ESP Founder at UC Berkeley and MacArthur Fellowship Recipient
Dr. Duane Kouba was Director of the Emerging Scholars Program (ESP) from 1989 to 2005 in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Davis.
He created this Honors Calculus Program with the intelligent and patient advice of Dr. Uri Treisman , the original creator of ESP Calculus Programs at UC Berkeley, the moral and material support of Emeriti Professors Dr. G. Thomas Sallee and Dr. Art Krener at UC Davis, and the kind and generous financial support of UC Davis Administrator Yvonne Marsh. ESP student participants met three times per week in standard Math 21ABC lecture classes (50 minutes each) and two times per week in group-based, problem-based, cooperative learning laboratories (110 minutes each) under the supervision of Dr. Duane Kouba and 2 or 3 undergraduate Teaching Assistants (ususally former ESP student participants). After a relatively slow start, the success of the ESP Program was dramatic and uniform across several metrics.
Here is a comprehensive ESP Report with links to the 9 Tables referred to in this report:
Table 1 , Table 2 , Table 3 , Table 4 , Table 5 , Table 6 , Table 7 , Table 8 , Table 9
Here are letters of support and praise from former ESP Participants .
Here is an article by Dr. D. A. Kouba in the UME Trends summarizing the success of the ESP Program.
Here is an article by Dr. D. A. Kouba in the National Association of Mathematicians Journal summarizing the effect of California's Proposition 209 on the minority enrollment in the ESP program.
Here is a third brief article about the ESP Program .
