At 06:44 PM 2/16/2000 GMT, Richard Pisacreta wrote:
>It takes work but my solution to students not doing assigned readings and
>just cramming for tests goes like this. ....
Tipsters,
I have not followed the entire thread on student responsibility so I
apologize if I am treading plowed ground here. I am curious what might be
considered a reasonable size for a reading assignment and whether students'
failures to read the material could be that often we assign too much. We
professors obviously have a responsibility to have reasonable expectations.
I realize that there are number of factors in the measure of size other
than page-count but do any of you have a page-count rule of thumb for a
reading assignment for a single class session in an *undergraduate* course?
(Is it different for textbook reading vs. journal articles; lower-division
vs. upper-division?)
How do the assignments you give compare in length to the ones you received
as an undergraduate in comparable courses?
Have you had to modify (read "lower") your expectations over the years
because of an actual or apparent diminishment in student ability or
self-discipline?
Just curious.
Keith Maxwell
Professor of Legal Studies and Ethics |Phone: 253 879 3703
University of Puget Sound |Fax: 253 879 3156
Tacoma, WA 98416 |<www.ups.edu/faculty/maxwell>
