michael sylvester wrote:
Indeed, when asked this question by students ("Do we have to know the parts you didn't cover in lecture?") my standard response has become "You are responsible for the material of the course. If I assigned it, you might be examined on it (unless I specifically excluded certain sections)." I have to say it so often that I should probably simply put a statement to this effect on my outline.is there a rule somewhere that states that a prof must cover all the parts of a chapter before giving a test on that chapter? My philosophy is that once a chapter is assigned students are responsible for knowing it,even though I would not be able to cover it all in class.
When I'm feeling particularly puckish, though, I sometimes say, "You don't have to know anything. You paid me thousands of dollars to teach it to you. If you don't want to learn it, that's your business." Occasionally that clarifies the relationship that actually exists between us. :-)
Regards, -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
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