Robert, that's consistent with my experience at a couple of universities (one giant, one mid-sized), but it isn't as pronounced here at this tiny place. Thirty percent is exactly what I had across seven years of teaching intro psych at the last (the mid-sized) place I worked. Here it's down to about 15% -- but we're a "nurturing" place. (Heh.)
m ------ "There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about." -- Margaret Wheatley -----Original Message----- From: Robert Wildblood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 8:41 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] From the NY Times Education Life 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 > > > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Dr. Bob Wildblood "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight D. Eisenhower "The time is always right to do what is right." Martin Luther King, Jr. "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin, 1775 "We are what we pretend to be, so we better be careful what we pretend to be." Kurt Vonnegut --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
