Dr. Rachel Menzies

School of Computing

A Case Study of Retention Strategies in the Curriculum

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Student Application Routes

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BSc (Hons) Applied Computing (Games)

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Challenges

• Less confidence• No sense of “belonging”• Lack of family support / experience

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(1) Exhibition

• Enhanced confidence• Improved sense of

“belonging”• Surrogate family

support

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(2) Peer Instruction

• A flipped classroom methodology

• Speaking to each other in lectures

• Taking more responsibility

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(3) Group work

• Problem solving in a group• A large problem that would be complex to

solve individually.

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Successes

• Extending the flipped classroom to other modules in other years

• Comparable exam marks

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The End Result

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Email: r.menzies@dundee.ac.uk