University of New Mexico - Valencia Campus
Teaching & Learning Center
Student Retention
63 ideas for dealing with retention/attrition http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/studretn.htm
As part of an ongoing longitudinal study, the author taught five chemical engineering courses in consecutive semesters to a cohort of students, using cooperative learning and other instructional methods designed to address a broad spectrum of learning styles. This paper outlines the policies and procedures, assignments, and classroom activities in the experimental course sequence and describes the students' performance and attitudes as they progressed through the sequence. http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Papers/long4.html