I saw a question about how to deal with high performing students, and although I think it is very important, the problem that we are facing in my school is the exact opposite.We have a high number of ghost students (approx. 25%) and also a large number of students dropping or failing in a second year OOP Java class (approx. 50%).Most of the dropping/failing students have passed CS1 (intro to programming with C) and CS2 (data structures with C). The problem is that they passed with a low grade (10 or 11 in a 0-20 scale) and in some cases, they are enrolling in the OOP class for the 5th or 6th time and have had CS1 and CS2 a long time ago. The main issue is that they've forgotten the most basic programming concepts, and each year it is getting worse. What should the teacher do? assume that the students know the basis and just keep on moving forward. (knowing in advance that most will fail)reserve the first weeks to recap the forgotten concepts.Advise the students to enroll in CS1/CS2 again.Anyone else has this problem? What have you done? Did it work?
How to deal with very low performing students?
differentiation