{"id":22021,"date":"2019-01-07T09:28:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T14:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=22021"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:29:41","slug":"student-success-in-first-year-online-classes-lowering-dfws-by-raising-the-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2019\/student-success-in-first-year-online-classes-lowering-dfws-by-raising-the-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Success in First-Year Online Classes: Lowering DFWs by Raising the Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Student Success in First-Year Online Classes: Lowering DFWs by Raising the Bar\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Many post-secondary institutions use DFW rates \u2014 the proportion of D\u2019s, F\u2019s and withdrawals in a given course or program \u2014 as a measure of student engagement and a bellwether of longer-term retention and success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us at the EDC on Jan. 10 from 10 a.m. &#8211; noon as Bruce Tsuji (Department of Psychology) compares the results from 8,800 online students with their face-to-face classroom equivalents in an attempt to understand some drivers of DFW and demonstrates some course elements that appear to help lower DFW.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button left\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/cu_event\/student-success-in-first-year-online-classes-lowering-dfws-by-raising-the-bar\/\">Register here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many post-secondary institutions use DFW rates \u2014 the proportion of D\u2019s, F\u2019s and withdrawals in a given course or program \u2014 as a measure of student engagement and a bellwether of longer-term retention and success. Join us at the EDC on Jan. 10 from 10 a.m. &#8211; noon as Bruce Tsuji (Department of Psychology) compares [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39898,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22021\/revisions\/39898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}