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

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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
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Accomplishing Meaningful Equity
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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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