Class Participation. This class is designed to be a capstone senior level course in which you show your understanding of psychology. Course participation is a requirement. You will be graded on your participation level. While I don’t require perfect attendance, obviously if you are not here, you are not participating. Part of your grade will be based on class attendance (for those questions everyone shouts out an answer to). However, attendance does not equal participation- that is, for you to earn a good grade in this area means more than showing up and breathing or asking me to explain something over again. When you do make comments, make sure they are relevant to the discussion at hand. You have the questions before class that will be the discussion we will be having. Go through the two books and make an outline of the response that would answer the question. There will be some answers that will not be found in the book but the majority of the information is there. As a rule of thumb, we will cover approximately 2 questions per class time. Make sure to bring your answers and both books to class with you every day. If I must wait more than 5 minutes for an answer to a question because no one in the class has prepared for that answer and everyone is looking up the response in class, then everyone will be responsible for that material on their own time I will not answer any questions about that material outside of class either.
Points for class participation: 2 for being in class that day, 5 if actually raised hand and called on
90-100 - Actively participates in almost every class period.
80-90 - Some class participation (has contributed approximately once a week or slightly less).
70-80 - Minimal participation (has contributed a few times to class discussion).
60-70 - Came to class regularly (very few misses) but has only participated once or twice.
At 07:28 AM 12/2/2002 -0600, you wrote:
Hi TIPSters:
I'm in the process of developing syllabi for next semester and wanted to
raise once again the issue of attendance policies. In my previous
academic position I never had much difficulty with classroom attendance.
In fact, I never made attendance mandatory for students. I simply told
them that they were expected to be at all class sessions unless some
unforeseen emergency came up that prevented them from being in class. A
few students took advantage of this policy, but for the most part my
students came to class eager and ready to learn. Since taking my new
position, however, the issue of attendance has become quite bothersome.
The institutional culture here encourages faculty to have attendance
policies, so I developed one before my first semester. To my surprise,
I found that a large percentage of my students complained on a regular
basis about the attendance policies and tried all types of excuses to
avoid the consequences of missing classes. This became such a headache
that I was considering switching back to my previous attendance policy,
but I took a very informal poll and found out that the vast majority of
my students reported that they would not attend classes if a professor
had no attendance policy. They stated that they would only attend
classes on the days of exams. I've asked some other faculty about this
and they have reported the same phenomena. My guess is that student
complaints about attendance policies are also part of our institutional
culture.
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