This project continues to build on Momentum Year activities, improving success rates in gateway courses, particularly targeting ENGL 1101 courses. Various strategies will be employed to improve student success rates, including curriculum redesign, innovative pedagogical strategies, mindset activities.
The KPI for this project is course pass rates (or success rates). Other metrics will be monitored such as withdrawal rates and FA grades, to better understand the nature of student performance and factors driving student success rates (e.g., course failures due to academic vs. non-academic reasons). Baseline success rates for ENGL 1101 are in the range of 55%-60%
This project continues from previous terms. The current project will allow the School of Arts and Sciences to gain better insight and understanding of the factors driving student performance and will assist in devising specific strategies to improve course success rates.
This project will continue from prior semesters. Steps will be taken in Spring 2025 to better understand the factors associated with withdrawals and “FA” grades (grades awarded when students leave a class without proper notification).
Project design presents the most challenges, specifically controlling for factors that impact student success, while isolating and measuring the impact of individual factors. A successful project design of a related project would be useful.
