Excerpt from Achieve the Dream Presentation

Given in Spring 2008

AtD Initiative – Math Linking

• Lets look at a specific example showing how this use of data lead to an Atd initiative

• Recall the earlier “Completion Point Analysis” math gatekeeper completion

Suggests that students are waiting too long after completing the developmental sequence to take college algebra, a gatekeeper course.

AtD Initiative – Math Linking

• Hold that thought for a second and consider this additional piece of data

• Let’s study the time to graduation for students completing our three gatekeeper courses (College Algebra, Comp I, and U. S. History I)

Suggests that students completing college algebra are more likely to graduate.

AtD Initiative – Math Linking

• The data would suggest that we should close the gap between when students complete the math developmental sequence and take college algebra

• For the last two years, as an AtD initiative we have linked the highest level of developmental math and College Algebra into a single semester format.

• Let’s take a look at the results so far.

AtD Initiative – Math Linking

• The data clearly demonstrates that math linking is having the desired effect.

• This spring we will further evaluate the linking initiative and plan for its future.

• We are looking at other linking options including MATH 0302 to MATH 0303.

• Let’s test drive Estudias and see it work.