Completion Rates
Apparently completion rates are becoming the norm in education... people will be able to see *exactly* how many people completed the courses I taught. Administrators, ratemyprofessor.com... everybody.
DSC is taking this very seriously, and they apparently scrutinize this in great detail.
All I have to say is "eek!"
What counts as a non-complete? Anyone with an F or a W (withdrawl)... so even if students withdraw from my class, it counts against me. It doesn't matter if I had 10 A's and 3 B's for students who stuck around--if 13 students withdrew, I'll show up as a 50% completion rate.
*Yeeesh*. If I were to take a guess, averaging 20 students per class, I'd say that I have failed maybe 1 out of every 15 students or so... (1 out of 20 at TCC!), and about 2 withdrawls per class. So if we say 3 out of 20... let's bump it up to 4 out of 20 just to be safe... that means I have an 80% completion rate, with the average completion rates (that I've seen in our department) being 71% during the day, and 55% during the evening classes. Unfortunately, I'm not really sure if TCC kept track of my completion rates, or if it would even follow me to Daytona.
Nevertheless, I'm a little nervous. According to our records, this fall is the 2nd highest number of students they've had for math courses, and they're expecting to break the #1 record during spring (YEESH! No wonder they hired me on!). I'm teaching MAT002, which is pre-algebra, and (in my experience) pre-algebra students can have a pretty high withdraw rate.
Herms. :\
DSC is taking this very seriously, and they apparently scrutinize this in great detail.
All I have to say is "eek!"
What counts as a non-complete? Anyone with an F or a W (withdrawl)... so even if students withdraw from my class, it counts against me. It doesn't matter if I had 10 A's and 3 B's for students who stuck around--if 13 students withdrew, I'll show up as a 50% completion rate.
*Yeeesh*. If I were to take a guess, averaging 20 students per class, I'd say that I have failed maybe 1 out of every 15 students or so... (1 out of 20 at TCC!), and about 2 withdrawls per class. So if we say 3 out of 20... let's bump it up to 4 out of 20 just to be safe... that means I have an 80% completion rate, with the average completion rates (that I've seen in our department) being 71% during the day, and 55% during the evening classes. Unfortunately, I'm not really sure if TCC kept track of my completion rates, or if it would even follow me to Daytona.
Nevertheless, I'm a little nervous. According to our records, this fall is the 2nd highest number of students they've had for math courses, and they're expecting to break the #1 record during spring (YEESH! No wonder they hired me on!). I'm teaching MAT002, which is pre-algebra, and (in my experience) pre-algebra students can have a pretty high withdraw rate.
Herms. :\