Overview

The Carnegie Statway™ Networked Improvement Community is focused on statistics, data analysis and quantitative reasoning. These mathematics skills are essential for a growing number of occupations and professions, and are those needed for making decisions under conditions of uncertainty, an inescapable condition of modern life. This is the math that will help students understand the world around them and it is the math they can use right now. Statway™ is designed as a one-year pathway that culminates in college-level statistics. The year-long experience will concentrate on statistical content with requisite arithmetic and algebraic concepts taught and applied in the context of statistics. The Statway™ pathway is structured especially to serve students planning to transfer and continue further studies in humanities or social sciences. Students who have unexpected success in quantitative courses, particularly when their experiences of mathematics has been difficult before, may become emboldened and may decide to take more mathematics.

This pathway includes newly developed curricula as well as an intensive student engagement component within the classroom environment focused on increasing student motivation and tenacity. These supports include the information and the skills needed for academic success as well as tools that will help students to navigate college.

Statway™ online materials were launched in 19 community colleges in five states in August 2011. In addition to lessons and student supports, the pathway includes MyStatway™, online out-of-class activities and homework. These take the place of a textbook, which is not required.

 

Resource Spotlight


Quantitative Literacy
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A panel discussion on quantitative literacy from the Quantway™ and Statway™ 2011 Summer Institute. Hosted by Rebecca Hartzler, senior associate of the Carnegie Foundation and introduced by Jane Muhich, director of Quantway™ and productive persistence at the Carnegie Foundation. Panelists include: Bernie Madison, University of Arkansas; Eric Gaze, Bowdoin College; and Caren Diefenderfer, Hollins University.
(Running time: 32:17)

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The Ties That Bind: Introductory Remarks
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Carnegie President Anthony S. Bryk's opening remarks at the Quantway™ and Statway™ 2011 Summer Institute.
(Running time: 21:36)

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Learning Opportunities
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A panel discussion on learning opportunities from the 2011 Summer Institute. Hosted by Kay Merseth of the Carnegie Foundation and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the panelists include: Jim Stigler, Carnegie Foundation, UCLA; Uri Treisman, Charles A. Dana Center, U. of Texas, Austin; Rachel Mudge, Carnegie Faculty in Residence; and Karen Givvin, Carnegie Foundation, UCLA.
(Running time: 39:08)

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Student Success and Productive Persistence
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Carnegie’s David Yeager’s presentation on Student Success and Productive Persistence as part of the 2011 Winter Institutes.
(Running time: 30:50)

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Carnegie Mathematics Pathways
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This short video was produced as a way for our participants to describe Carnegie’s work in developmental math in community colleges. Captured during the January 2011 Winter Institutes, it provides an overview of the work to date.
(Running time: 6:21)

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