This report is an analysis of student interactions with the course registration system at WPI with a focus on the waitlist process. We identified student ignorance, poor communication, and a lack of personal responsibility as three related causes for unnecessary waitlists and student frustration. Simple intervention such as peer advising and a scheduling tool, were able to help first year students, and reduce the number on waitlists by 50% for this group.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• DeMello, Craig Alan
• Norton, Erica Jane
• Brown, Victoria J.

Subject

• Computing
• Learning
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-102411-091918

Keyword

• Curriculum planning
• Education, Higher

Advisor

• Heinricher, Arthur C.

Year

• 2011

Date created

• 2011-10-24

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright