Gap Analysis: An Innovative Look at Gateway Courses and Student Retention

In this paper we argue that simply identifying gateway courses in which a large number of students fail or withdraw and focusing attention on them is not the best use of limited resources.  No matter what we do, there will always be courses with high D/F/W rates simply because of the nature of thei...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Karen Swan, William Bloemer, Scott Day
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Online Learning Consortium 2017-09-01
Series:Online Learning
Subjects:
Online Access:https://olj.onlinelearningconsortium.org/index.php/olj/article/view/1233