The Statistics Pathway (Statway) Proceedings of the 2010 Summer Institute

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Overview

The Statistics Pathway (Statway) 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. The Statway will be 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. Statway 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.

Proceedings of the 2010 Summer Institute

Presentations

Introducing Statway
Slideshow from the opening remarks of Anthony Bryk on July 26, 2010.
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Baseline Statway Collaboratory Network
Slideshow presented by Jennifer Lin Russell & Louis Gomez on July 26, 2010.
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Statway Instructional Design Principles
Slideshow presented by Bill Saunders on July 27, 2010.
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Statway Lesson Pilot Protocol
Slideshow presented by Bill Saunders on July 27, 2010.
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Framing Institutional and Policy Issues
Session for deans led by Bernadine Chuck Fong, Rose Asera and Uri Treisman on July 27, 2010.
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Doing College: Promoting Student Success
Slideshow presented by Uri Treisman and Jenna Cullinane on July 28, 2010.
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Statway Technology Infrastructure
Slideshow present by Miguel Socias on July 29, 2010.
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Language & Literacy Factors in the Teaching of Statistics
Slideshow presented by Guadalupe Valdés on July 29, 2010.
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What it Means to Join the Joyful Conspiracy
Final slideshows presented on July 30, 2010.
Facilitators | Institutional Researchers | Deans

End of Institute Statway Collaboratory Network
Slideshow presented by Jennifer Lin Russell & Louis Gomez on July 30, 2010.
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Daily Reflection Summary
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday

Participating Collaboratory Colleges
Slideshows presentations created by the "Carnegie Buddies" of the 19 participating institutions.
CA: American River College | Foothill College | Pierce College | Mt. San Antonio College | San Diego City College
CT: Capital Community College | Gateway Community College | Housatonic Community College | Naugatuck Valley Community College
FL: Miami Dade College | Tallahassee Community College | Valencia Community College
TX: Austin Community College | El Paso Community College | Houston Community College | Northwest Vista College | Richland College
WA: Seattle Central Community College | Tacoma Community College

Documents

Instructional Design Principles (draft)
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Instructional Outline for Statway
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Student Learning Outcomes
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Readings, Reports, Essays

The Effects of Classroom Mathematics Teaching on Students’ Learning
By James Hiebert and Douglas A. Grouws. In Second Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning. 2007.
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GAISE Reports
Participants in the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) project have created two reports of recommendations for introductory statistics courses (college level) and statistics education in Pre-K-12 years.
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Kids Master Mathematics When They're Challenged But Supported
By Bernice Yeung. This article was also published in the Oct 2009: The Waldorf Way issue of Edutopia magazine as "Let 'Em Sweat."
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Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper
Carnegie President Tony Bryk and Senior Partner Uri Treisman write in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Math should be a gateway, not a gatekeeper, to a successful college education. Students must come to see math as an essential aspect of their everyday lives, no matter what their field of study. They need to think, "I can understand this, I can do this, this is important to know."
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Problem Solution Exploration Papers
A series of background papers devised to measure student success in community college developmental mathematics and to help identify problems of practice for potential future work.
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The Problem of Persistence
By David Bressoud. In Launchings, MAA Online, www.maa.org.
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Reconsider and Redesign Developmental Mathematics
A primer on Carnegie's new Pathways work.
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Statway: Integrating College Level Introductory Statistics and Developmental Mathematics
A presentation on Statway made at the Joint Statistics Meetings, August 2010, by members of the Carnegie Committee for Statistics Learning Outcomes (CCSLO).
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What Community College Developmental Mathematics Students Understand about Mathematics
By James W. Stigler, Karen B. Givvin, and Belinda J. Thompson. In MathAMATYC Educator, Vol. 1, No. 3. May 2010.
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