Assessing the Effectiveness of Quantway®: A Multilevel Model With Propensity Score Matching

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Title: Assessing the Effectiveness of Quantway®: A Multilevel Model With Propensity Score Matching
Abstract/Description: Objective: Quantway is a Carnegie Math Pathways initiative, which redesigns the content, pedagogy, and structure of traditional developmental mathematics courses to simultaneously tackle traditional barriers to student success and support a broad range of developmental students in achieving their mathematics potential. Specifically, Quantway is a quantitative reasoning sequence that is comprised of a single term accelerated developmental mathematics course called Quantway 1 and a college-level mathematics course called Quantway 2. This study assesses the effectiveness of the developmental mathematics course, Quantway 1, during its first six semesters of implementation.

Method: We used a hierarchical linear modeling technique to conduct propensity score matching across 37 student characteristics to compare the course performance of Quantway 1 students with matched comparison students from traditional developmental mathematics courses.

Results: Quantway 1 students demonstrated significantly higher odds of success in fulfilling developmental mathematics course requirements and enrolling in college mathematics courses in the following year than matched comparison students. In addition, Quantway 1 effects were positive across all sex and race/ethnicity subgroups as well as in nearly all classrooms and colleges.

Contributions: This study provides robust evidence that Quantway 1 increases student success in fulfilling developmental mathematics requirements and advances equity in student outcomes. Implications of and future directions for the Pathways are discussed.
Author/creator: Yamada, Hiroyuki; Bohannon, Angel X.; Grunow, Alicia; Thorn, Christopher A.
Date: 2018
In publication: Community College Review
Volume: 46
Issue: 3
Pages: 257-287
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Empirical
Language: en
Open access/full-text available: en Yes
Peer reviewed: en Yes
ISSN: 0091-5521
DOI: 10.1177/0091552118771754
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE Journals); Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)
Citation: Yamada, H., Bohannon, A. X., Grunow, A., & Thorn, C. A. (2018). Assessing the Effectiveness of Quantway®: A Multilevel Model With Propensity Score Matching. Community College Review, 46(3), 257–287. https://doi.org/10.1177/0091552118771754
Cited in: Accomplishing Meaningful Equity

Item sets: Open Access Resource (IRE); Handbook Chapter 5 Citations; OB Citations - Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Evaluating Improvement Networks; Ob Citations - Research–Practice Partnerships in Education Within the United States

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