Hello
I teach an 3rd year undergraduate course in
conservation which has an enrollment of about 60 people (estimated 100+ in
2011), approximately half of whom take the course as a required component of
their degree, the other half who take it as an elective.
Next year, our institution is enacting a credit/d/fail
status for courses that are taken as electives and my course will have the
status applied to it. More than half of the students in my course will be
able to take it for credit/d/fail status instead of a letter grade, the others
will not have this option.
Although I would like to revamp the course to use team-based
learning next year, I am wary of the influence that the credit/d/fail status
may have on group work and individual motivation.
I would be grateful to hear from anyone who has some
experience and/or has conducted research on this type of situation.
Cheers,
Suzie Lavallee
Suzie
Lavallee, PhD
Lecturer, Natural
Resources Conservation Program
Dept. of Forest Sciences,
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Phone: (604) 822-4987
Fax: (604) 822-9102
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out the course website at: http://courses.forestry.ubc.ca/cons451