Questions tagged [attendance]
On students' attendance in classes, seminars and talks.
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How do I motivate my PhD students to attend seminars
I lead a research group of ten PhD students in the field of cancer research. We are doing pretty well and we are the top group at our institute in terms of publications, service and general motivation....
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How to deal with students wanting the answer versus working through the process
I am currently teaching an undergraduate forensic photography course, but I'm having a difficult time this semester. Many of my students seem disengaged, and they expect me to simply give them the ...
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Adjust grading policy mid-course to improve attendance?
I'm teaching a math course and have traditionally not enforced attendance, instead allocating 5% of the course grade to in-class participation (questions and answers), which maintained satisfactory ...
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What to do when one failed a course in their early years in Bsc which is not part of their major subject
I am a 1st year Bachelor of science student from India, from a well reputed institution, and I want to take physics as my major. I am very passionate about it, and a few of the senior professors ...
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Is it appropriate to give a student a "negative grade" (fewer than zero points) for a small portion of the overall grade?
I teach a course where attendance is required. The syllabus says "Every unexcused absence will result in a deduction of one point from the attendance grade". The total number of points for ...
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How to avoid punishing students for honesty regarding attendance?
I have taught an introductory statistics class at a local university for a number of years now, and have a policy of no late work/tests without prior approval. (Of course, emergencies are exempt) I ...
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Is the death of a girlfriend's father a reasonable excuse for a student to miss a class?
I just received an email from an undergrad student in a course that I am teaching.
The student informed me that his girlfriend's father passed away,
and so he will be unable to attend my class because
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Does it reflect worse on a student to skip class or not go to any office hours?
Does it reflect worse on a student to skip class or not go to any office hours? My professors so far think it's better for one to never show up to ask questions but go to classes but I disagree ...
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How common is mandatory attendance-taking in college courses in US?
A recent SE Academia question asked about how best to implement a university's requirement that the instructor must keep attendance records for all students. The top-voted answer there was to simply ...
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My university requires that I take attendance. How should I treat students who arrive late to class?
I might soon teach at a university which requires that I record attendance of students, as follows:
Attendance is a requirement for the course. A person with at least 75% of attendance is eligible to ...
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Falsified student signatures in class attendance list
I am required to keep a tag at the students' attendance of classes by the rules of the university where I teach. The students' attendance cannot be lower than 75% of the classes, or else they ...
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How to automatize the making and sending of event's attendance certificates? [closed]
Our department make a lot of attendance certificates, for events we run, and we waste a lot of work typing attendance lists and sending them by email. Most of the public are students are from my ...
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Dealing with add/drop class numbers
I'm teaching a new course at a top 50 university where they have an add/drop class policy during the first weeks. This course was previously taught by a different professor whom I don't know, but he ...
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What are good argument against strict attendance policy, and university making it harder for students to maintain attendance?
My university have a very strict attendance policy, attendance affect the students marks a lot and if attendance is lower than 75% at the end of the semester, students are not allowed to sit in finals....
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Does taking a long time to graduate impact my Ms/PhD admission?
I need some advice on my career. I study in Brazil and I'm one year away from obtaining my bachelor in Mathematics. Here the duration is 4 years.
In 2016 I had to start working two jobs (unrelated to ...
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