Using Improvement Science to Improve Teaching and Learning
The Pathways' Productive Persistence Subnetwork is addressing the problem of student motivation, tenacity, and skills for success in developmental mathematics.
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February 4, 2013 January 8, 2013 Positive Changes on Productive Persistence Measures
Carnegie's Pathways is helping students to succeed in developmental mathematics by developing tenacity and good strategies, the two main components of productive persistence.
January 8, 2013 Andrea Levy: Strategies to Support Developmental Math Students
Andrea Levy, Statway instructor at Seattle Central Community College, speaks about how she supports her students intellectually and emotionally to help them succeed.
September 13, 2012 The Futures of School Reform
The essay “Building on Practical Knowledge" presents a third way to conduct research that incorporates practitioner knowledge using Networked Improvement Communities.
August 28, 2012 Tough’s Book Supports Carnegie Work in Productive Persistence
Paul Tough’s book “How Children Succeed” highlights the impact of noncognitive skills, like persistence, self-control, curiosity, grit and self-confidence, on student success.
August 13, 2012 The Era of Networked Science
In Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, Michael Nielsen explains how the internet has created the conditions for a completely open research field in which increased collaboration can help spur innovation.
July 24, 2012 Carnegie Launches Subnetworks
Carnegie's Pathways has launched several subnetworks, a team of NIC members, to work together on a specific problem, challenge, or development priority within the Network.
July 24, 2012 The Power of Networks
The high levels of student success from the first year of Statway and Quantway highlight the power of working together, across campuses as a Networked Improvement Community.
July 12, 2012 A Course and So Much More
The Carnegie Foundation has launched two pathways, Statway and Quantway, to help students succeed in developmental mathematics. Statway and Quantway are more than courses, they are entire new instructional systems.
June 13, 2012 Carnegie Invites Researchers to Work on Student Success Problem in Community Colleges
Carnegie is launching the Carnegie Alpha Lab Research Network, a National Science Foundation funded project that aims to coordinate the efforts of researchers interested in leveraging their own research expertise to improve the Carnegie Pathways.
May 3, 2012 Improvement Research: The Carnegie Way
The Carnegie Foundation is adopting improvement research methods and learning from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to address the gap between what is known and what happens daily in practice.
May 2, 2012 Recommendations May Not Go Far Enough
The recent American Association of Community Colleges 21st-Century Commission recommends having a goal to increase completion rates by 50 percent by 2020. Carnegie's work on developmental mathematics suggests we can achieve even more.
May 2, 2012 Early Results
Statway is continuing to show early signs of success. 88% of students who passed the first term of Statway have enrolled in the second term and will earn college credit with its completion.
May 2, 2012 Remediation: Higher Education’s Bridge to Nowhere
Complete College America's report, “Remediation: Higher Education’s Bridge to Nowhere," examines how of the two million students who are enrolled in community college less than one in 10 students graduate within three years.
May 2, 2012 Reforms with Promise
The Carnegie Foundation has launched a national network of 27 community colleges and three universities dedicated to helping students at the greatest risk of failure in math which is showing promising results.
March 22, 2012 Rapid Hub Analytics: A Focus on Continuous Improvement
Carnegie is developing an information system that integrates real-time faculty and student data with institutional records to inform continuous improvement for the Pathways network.
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