New Carnegie Report Looks at Psychological Strategies for Student Success

ANNOUNCEMENT New Carnegie Report Looks at Psychological Strategies for Student Success The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is testing a set of strategies based on research in psychology and other fields to motivate community college students to earn their first credits in math, a hurdle that blocks the progress of many students. Known collectively as "productive persistence," the strategies are a key component of two new Carnegie pathways to get struggling students through college-level mathematics in a year. Carnegie has achieved dramatic results in the initial implementation of the pathways, known as Quantway™ and Statway™, tripling the success rate for students at participating institutions in half the time. Productive persistence provides students with the tenacity, psychological toughness, and study skills they need to succeed in academic settings. Carnegie Senior Associate Elena Silva and Staff Associate Taylor White describe the Carnegie pathways and the productive persistence strategy in a new Carnegie Foundation report entitled,Pathways to Improvement: Using Psychological Strategies to Help College Students Master Developmental Math. ### The Carnegie Foundation is committed to developing networks of ideas, individuals, and institutions to advance teaching and learning. We join together scholars, practitioners, and designers in new ways to solve problems of educational practice. Toward this end, we work to integrate the discipline of improvement science into education with the goal of accelerating the field’s capacity to learn to improve.  We are an operating foundation located in Stanford, California. www.carnegiefoundation.org