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Attrition, Grades, Reenrollment and Graduation
Significantly reduce attrition rates in "high-risk" courses.


In courses which have a 30 percent or higher rate of D and F final course grades and withdrawals, SI reduces these combined rates by approximately 30% to 50%. At UMKC these courses include those from the lower division College of Arts and Sciences and professional and graduate schools.


SI participants receive higher mean final course grades (4 point scale).

  All colleges 2 Year Public 4 Year Public 4 Year Private
# of courses N=4, 945 N=93l N=3001 N=993
Non-SI 2.09 2.09 2.07 2.31
SI 2.42 2.56 2.36 2.55

 


SI participants receive a lower percentage of D, F, or W final course grades.

  All colleges 2 Year Public 4 Year Public 4 Year Private
# of courses N=4,945 N=931 N=3001 N=993
Non-SI 37.1% 32.4% 37.3% 28.4%
SI 23.1% 24.3% 23.9% 19.1%

 


SI participants receive a higher percentage of A & B final course grades.

  All colleges 2 Year Public 4 Year Public 4 Year Private
# of courses N=4,945 N=931 N=3001 N=993
Non-SI 35.9% 32.4% 35.4% 43.2%
SI 46.8% 50.2% 44.8% 52.1%




Percent of reenrollment the following semester.
UMKC students of differing levels of previous academic achievement. Quartiles based on composite ACT score as compared with other UMKC students.

  Top Quartile Middle Two Quartiles Bottom Quartile
Non-SI 93.1% 77.9% 77.9%
SI 92.9% 90.5% 85.6%

 


Graduation rates of UMKC students.

Graduation rates of students who entered Fall 1989 as first-time, first-year, students and the cumulative gradation rate by the end of the four time periods.

Dates Fall Fall Fall Fall
  1993 1994 1995 1996
Non-SI 12.3% 21.1% 27.4% 30.3%
SI 15.9% 31.3% 38.1% 46.0%




 
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