I've spent more than 15 years working with First Year Experience
courses, Supplemental Instruction programs and as VP of Academic and
Student Affairs as the #1 person concerned with recruitment and
retention, and the statistics that I have gathered suggest that the
number of DWF's for introductory courses is about 30% and that goes
for small colleges and large universities.I don't know where Ms. Twigg
gets her data.
On 8 Jan 2008, at 08:37, Miguel Roig wrote:
From the NYT's article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/education/edlife/strategy.html?em&ex=1
199854800&en=40a4ddcd6163d3e7&ei=5087%0A
"About 15 percent who take 100-level courses at large public
universities get D's or F's or withdraw from them, says Carol A.
Twigg,
president of the nonprofit National Center for Academic
Transformation.
She works with colleges to make the lecture format more engaging. "We
lose so many students between the first and second years," she says,
"because they are not passing these courses."
I think that those percentages are a bit higher in my introductory
classes. :-(
Miguel
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