Some CC's - community colleges, 2 year schools, 'tech' schools - get their state funding from the number of students signed up for classes. Some get their money from the number who show up once by the second class. Some get it from the number who complete the class (carried on the books past the last drop date). Each school, whether it likes to admit it or not, behaves so as to maximize the thing they get 'paid' for. thankfully, nobody has yet tied funding directly to the number who receive a passing grade. I hope.
Jay Stan Brown wrote: > David Heiser wrote in sci.stat.edu: > > My experience has been that a lot of the material in introductory > >stat goes over the heads of the students, and for a variety of reasons drop > >out. It is not unusual to start out with 45 students and end up with 9 at > >the end of the semester > > Wow! I've been beating myself up over a 50% attrition rate. > > >A part of the textbook has to be left out due to the number of class days > >per semester . Consequently the passing student will not have what most of > >us consider a good "breadth" in introductory statistics. > > Alas, my experience is the same. > > -- > Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA > http://OakRoadSystems.com/ > "You despise me, don't you?" > "If I gave you any thought, I probably would." > -- Casablanca > . > . > ================================================================= > Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the > problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: > . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . > ================================================================= -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. 4444 North Green Bay Road Racine, WI 53404-1216 USA Ph: (262) 634-9100 FAX: (262) 681-1133 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.a2q.com The A2Q Method (tm) -- What do you want to improve today? . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
