Supplemental Instruction

Supplemental Instruction was created at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The goal of S.I. is to target "at-risk" courses--those with historically high levels of drops, Ws, Ds, and Fs--and create a learning support network to enable student success. An overview from UMKC can be found here and here.

Coordinator of Supplemental Instruction Diane White's analysis of the first two semesters of S.I. at Solano, in Spring and Fall 2008, is available here. It's of interest to note that even in its preliminary implementation, retention went up, and success rates also rose, or in the case of English 1, were kept from falling.