Changing the Equation: Redesigning Developmental Math

Changing the Equation is a major program to engage the nation’s community colleges in a successful redesign of their remedial/developmental math sequences. Institutions participating in the program will improve student learning outcomes while reducing costs for both students and institutions using NCAT's proven redesign methodology. Collectively, these 38 redesigns will impact more than 120,000 students annually.

Each participant in Changing the Equation will redesign its entire developmental math sequence--all sections of all developmental courses offered--using NCAT's Emporium Model and commercially available instructional software. Each redesign will modularize the curriculum, allowing students to progress through the developmental course sequence at a faster pace if possible or at a slower pace if necessary, spending the amount of time needed to master the course content. Institutions will pilot their redesign plans in spring 2011 and fully implement their plans in fall 2011.

Participating Institutions
A list of the 38 participating two-year colleges.

Final Report Format
Instructions for preparing Changing the Equation final reports.

Assessing the Results Workshop: March 30, 2012
Workshop agenda, registration information and presentation format for Option I Changing the Equation participants.

Assessing the Results Workshop: August 7, 2012
Workshop agenda, registration information and presentation format for Option II Changing the Equation participants.

Facts at a Glance
Charts showing comparative data for the 38 participating institutions including enrollments, models, courses, modules, cost reduction strategies.

Facts at a Glance Narrative
An article by Carol Twigg that summarizes comparative data about the 38 institutions’ traditional developmental math programs and their planned redesigns.

Changing the Equation: Scaling a Proven Innovation
An article by Carol Twigg that describes the program's purposes and its place in the panoply of developmental math reform.

Archives
Archived information from the Changing the Equation application process.

This project is sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.