On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 06:47, Paul Bagyenda wrote: > Somehow students are leaving the project til the last month. I am not > sure why this is. Perhaps the project should be turned into a course > unit in its own right, so that students can spend time over the > semester. (This is what my old uni did and it worked well). > But I've found that the propensity to do nada among students is a bit > too high to be explained just by the lack of time. True some students > do actually spend time, but often the projects are just not compelling > enough. The other issues (of skewed grading scales) can be worked out, > but generally the level of inspiration is lacking. Whose to blame? Not > sure quite yet. > Ofcourse this simply implies one of two things: 1)Either ALL students (we :-)) are "Daft and slow" OR 2)There MUST be a HUGE bug in the academic system at Makerere that needs an urgent fix.
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