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CARNEGIE’S STATWAY AND QUANTWAY

DANA CENTER’S NEW MATHWAYS PROJECT

Bernadine Chuck Fong and Uri Treisman

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Addressing Developmental Math

• HIGH LEVERAGE PROBLEM– Math is a major gatekeeper for certificate or degree attainment

• LOW SUCCESS RATES (C grade or higher) – Among developmental math students are extraordinarily low

• OVER-REPRESENTATION – Of low income, African American and Hispanic students in

developmental math

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THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE

• STATE POLICY ISSUES

• MATH PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• COMMON WORK OF THE DANA CENTER AND THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION

The NMP Courses

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A College Level Pathway for

developmental math students

• RE-CONCEPTUALIZED the curriculum

• SHORTENED the trajectory

• RICH PROBLEMS for students to “struggle with”

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Baseline data for all developmental mathematics students who enrolled in 2008. Does not include two state 4 year universities in Statway®.

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Productive Persistence• True or False:

– “You are either a math person or you are not”

• 87% of our students answered “True”

• Need designed interventions to move to a Growth Mindset

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CARNEGIE’S STATWAY AND QUANTWAY

DANA CENTER’S NEW MATHWAYS PROJECT

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