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Carnegie Partners with Noel-Levitz on Math Readiness

By: Chris Riedel

10/29/2008

Enrollment management consultants at Noel-Levitz are partnering with education publisher Carnegie Learning in an effort to help increase college-level student retention through improved math readiness.

According to the announcement, the partnership will pair retention management and consulting services from Noel-Levitz with Carnegie's research-based Developmental Math Solution. The Carnegie platform is built around software that gives students personalized, self-paced math instruction, designed to assess their individual needs, and provides exercises that help improve core concept comprehension. The combination of services is intended to help students achieve in both remedial, and regular college-level math courses.

"A high percentage of college students enter college unprepared to succeed at math," said Dan Klassen, director of corporate business development at Noel-Levitz, in a prepared statement. "What's more alarming is the high failure rates in these developmental mathematics courses, and the high number of students who drop out of college after failing these course, a decision that has broad societal consequences as well as lifelong personal costs."

The Carnegie Learning Developmental Math Solution includes lessons from the company's Cognitive Tutor platform, based on research conducted at Carnegie-Mellon University.


About the author: Chris Riedel is a freelance writer based in Florida. He can be reached here.