A major challenge facing students as they pursue a postsecondary degree is a lack of academic preparedness for college-level math, evident by high rates of referral to developmental math and low rates of college math completion. This study, by Education Northwest’s Michelle Hodara, reviews rigorous research on the interventions and reforms that postsecondary institutions currently employ to address academic underpreparedness in math and to foster college math success.

The interventions and reforms fall under three strategies:

• intervening prematriculation with early assessment programs, bridges, boot camps, and brush-ups
• reforming developmental math
• improving math instruction

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