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Building a Statway to Heaven. CAUSE Webinar: February 8, 2011. Philip Uri Treisman Professor of Mathematics and Public Affairs Executive Director, Charles A. Dana Center The University of Texas at Austin. The Problem Addressed.
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Building a Statway to Heaven CAUSE Webinar: February 8, 2011 Philip Uri TreismanProfessor of Mathematics and Public AffairsExecutive Director, Charles A. Dana CenterThe University of Texas at Austin
The Problem Addressed Source: Calcagno, J. C., & Long, B. T. (2008). The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance (NCPR Working Paper). New York, NY: National Center for Postsecondary Research. 2
The Typical Developmental Math Sequence in Community Colleges 3
Proportion of Student Outcomes in the Developmental Math Sequence 4
Multiplicative Dropout in the Developmental Sequence Mathway and Statway: Pathways to developmental mathematics and through a college-level mathematics course for non-STEM community college students. Blair, R. Presentation, July, 13, 2010. 5
Nested Problems in a Broken System • Placement • Articulation • Student Support • Improvement Infrastructure 6
We Live in an Incoherent Environmentfor Improvement Source: Bryk, T. and Gomez, L. 2008, Ruminations. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 8
Our Approach: New Pathways • Statway • Quantway • STEMway 9
Statway: Integrating College Level Introductory Statistics and Developmental Mathematics. Peck, R., Snell M., Delmas, B., Kimball, R., Klipple, K. AMATYC Presentation, November 12, 2010. 10
Statway: Integrating College Level Introductory Statistics and Developmental Mathematics. Peck, R., Snell M., Delmas, B., Kimball, R., Klipple, K. AMATYC Presentation, November 12, 2010. 11
Statway: Integrating College Level Introductory Statistics and Developmental Mathematics. Peck, R., Snell M., Delmas, B., Kimball, R., Klipple, K. AMATYC Presentation, November 12, 2010. 12
Statway: Integrating College Level Introductory Statistics and Developmental Mathematics. Peck, R., Snell M., Delmas, B., Kimball, R., Klipple, K. AMATYC Presentation, November 12, 2010. 13