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.

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评估 Quantway® 的有效性：具有倾向得分匹配的多级模型

目标：Quantway 是 Carnegie Math Pathways 计划，它重新设计了传统发展性数学课程的内容、教学法和结构，以同时解决学生成功的传统障碍，并支持广泛的发展性学生实现他们的数学潜力。具体来说，Quantway 是一个定量推理序列，由称为 Quantway 1 的单学期加速发展数学课程和称为 Quantway 2 的大学水平数学课程组成。 本研究评估了发展数学课程 Quantway 1 在其第一阶段的有效性六个学期的实施。方法：我们使用分层线性建模技术对 37 个学生特征进行倾向评分匹配，以比较 Quantway 1 学生与传统发展数学课程的匹配比较学生的课程表现。结果： Quantway 1 学生在满足发展数学课程要求和第二年注册大学数学课程方面的成功几率明显高于匹配的比较学生。此外，Quantway 1 效应在所有性别和种族/民族亚组以及几乎所有教室和大学中都是积极的。贡献：这项研究提供了强有力的证据，证明 Quantway 1 增加了学生在满足发展数学要求方面的成功，并促进了学生成果的公平性。