{"id":295668,"date":"2025-04-15T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/webassign-boosts-student-pass-rates-in-developmental-math-the-cengage-blog\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:21:09","slug":"webassign-boosts-student-pass-rates-in-developmental-math-the-cengage-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/webassign-boosts-student-pass-rates-in-developmental-math-the-cengage-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"webassign-boosts-student-pass-rates-in-developmental-math- The Cengage Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n                  <span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cengage.com\/faculty\/melissa-ried-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melissa Reid<\/a>, Department Chair at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, was concerned that students in her <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cengage.com\/how-fellow-instructors-use-webassign-features-in-developmental-math\/\">developmental math<\/a> course were lacking critical support from her previous publisher and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cengage.com\/instructors\/#platforms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online learning platform<\/a>, resulting in discouragingly low pass rate numbers. She was looking for more personalized support that would hopefully jumpstart her students on the pathway to success in future gateway-level math courses.<\/p>\n<h2>\u201c\u2026we were blown away.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>After switching to <a href=\"https:\/\/webassign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WebAssign<\/a> in the Fall of 2022, Reid saw major improvements in the level of support both students and faculty members were receiving. She was impressed by how easy course setup was, and how efficiently she was able to coordinate with the WebAssign team to develop customized student content. Most importantly, she loved that students were able to enjoy a personalized learning experience and take advantage of various built-in study resources and features, like \u201cWatch Its.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The results? Pass rates in Professor Reid\u2019s developmental math course increased by 117% within the span of one semester. Her students are enthusiastic about what WebAssign offers and have been able to develop better concept building skills.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAfter we worked with Cengage to create a developmental design, our pass rates dramatically improved! Students often commented about how they enjoyed all of the resources within WebAssign, like the \u2018Read Its\u2019 and \u2018Watch Its\u2019.\u201d \u2013 Melissa Reid<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>Learn more about how WebAssign helped prepare Professor Reid\u2019s developmental <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cengage.com\/discipline-mathematics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">math<\/a> students for gateway-level math courses, while providing critical support along the way.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>      <!-- .entry-footer -->\n    <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cengage.com\/webassign-boosts-student-pass-rates-in-developmental-math\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute Melissa Reid, Department Chair at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, was concerned that students in her developmental math course were lacking critical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}