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The Community College Pathways initiative consists of two pathways, Statway® and Quantway®, that accelerate post-secondary students' progress through their developmental mathematics sequence and a college-level course for credit. Launched in 2011, the Pathways have been remarkably successful, helping thousands of students achieve success in college-level mathematics. In 2013-2014, the Pathways maintained the positive outcomes attained in the first two years of implementation, including successful course completion rates of approximately 50 percent for both Pathways. The initiative was able to achieve these results while serving almost three times as many students as in its first year. This report provides descriptive statistics on 2013-2014 student outcomes as well insights into potential areas for improvement based on data from the third year's implementation of the Pathways. Tables are appended.

Carnegie's Community College Pathways (CCP) offers two pathways, Statway® and Quantway®, that reduce the amount of time required to complete developmental mathematics and earn college-level mathematics credit. The Pathways aim to improve student success in mathematics while maintaining rigorous content, pedagogy, and learning outcomes. It is essential that the Pathways' success in securing college credit for participants does not come at the expense of the rigor of the curriculum or level of student learning. This report describes the comparative analyses from the Pathways summative assessment system. All items on the summative assessments were rigorously validated by field testing with over 500 members of a comparison sample who had taken a college mathematics or statistics course. Subsequently, all Pathways students took the summative assessments at the end of each term. This report describes analyses that use the development sample for comparison to Pathways students to assess their relative levels of knowledge. This report then describes the relationship between students' summative assessments and their end-of-term grades. This analysis is to provide further evidence that Pathways students are not just receiving high grades and successfully completing the Pathways at a higher rate, but that their grades are reflective of actual learning, as corroborated by the independent measure. Also included in the report are appendices: (1) Sample Summative Assessment Items: Statway; (2) Statway and Quantway Modules; and (3) Tables.

The Community College Pathways (CCP) program had an outstanding second year. In 2012-2013, the program reproduced the positive outcomes realized in the first year of implementation, including successful course completion rates of over 50 percent for both Pathways. Simultaneously, the administration of the Pathways has continued to develop and improve in varied instructional settings across the United States. This report provides descriptive statistics on 2012-2013 student outcomes as well as insights into the challenges and improvements in the second year's implementation of the Pathways. Altogether, the information presented in this report adds to the growing evidence of the Community College Pathways program's ability to reliably generate positive results at scale. A list of participating institutions in the 2012-2013 academic year is appended.