Meaning it’s worth sixty-five percent of my grade and carries the most weight out of any assignments. Homework Logs and Class Room assignments is worth two-hundred points, Attendance is one-hundred points, and Participation is worth fifty points. 5. The course policy for attendance indicates that every student must be on time and in class on their appointed schedules. The number of absences that a student can have before losing points is four, however, if a student misses more than four absences then their attendance grade drops to fifty percent or fifty points.…
Max Roosevelt writes on the point of view of professors on students disputing grades due to their expectations. The author references numerous staff members from universities that find that students expect A’s or B’s for meeting the requirements of the class. One of the staff members Roosevelt states “There is a mentality in students that if I work hard, I deserve a high grade.” (“Roosevelt, Student Expectations”) Students reinforced the theories professors have by believing that if they meet all requirements set by the professor, they warrant a high…
School is a controversial topic for many. Some believe that the education system is flawed and that ultimately leads to the downfall of the students. Others believe that the students are the problem. They believe that student do not want to put in the effort to properly learn and that is causing the education system to downgrade. The articles In Praise of The F Word by Mary Sherry and Making the Grade by Kurt Wiesenfeld depict how opposing the views can get.…
You don’t reward someone for just showing up, do you? Youth programs award youth athletes at the end of the season with participation trophies. Sure, it's nice to get a trophies, that says good job you did your best, but participation trophies can lose their meaning. In life people don't get a award for just showing up. Participation trophies can raise a kids self confidence, they can give kids a wrong message.…
Women 30 years old and Older, Returning to School Introduction Literature Review According to Judith Berman Brandenburg, Assistant Professor and Counseling Psychologist, Department of Student Personnel, Queens College of the City University of New York, “many of these women are returning to school at what some would call middle motherhood, typically between the ages of 35 and 45.” Brandenburg goes on to say, many of these women returning to school is more situational than related to their age (1974). Brandenburg’s journal called “the needs of women returning to school” focused on women returning to school after a break in their formal education.…
I am writing you this letter in hopes of persuading you to boost my semester average up. This class is the toughest one out of all my seven, and the work you stack on us is impossible to complete with the little time you give us. In order to pass your class I need ten points added onto my semester average, and I am willing to do whatever it takes to earn them. I have checked in with some of the students from other classes and they're not doing as much work as we are in your class. It's hard to be in school and work right after; it's even harder when we have a lot of homework to worry about.…
What it means to be responsible is that you have to always be prepared in bad situations or even good situations, you have everything organize, you have everything that’s going to happen. Such as you have you want to make sure that you got everything paid off like bills, car insurance, car payments, and much more because you want to make sure that you don’t want to go in debt of anything because that will be a horrible experience trust me I heard that from so many people. To be educated it means to go to school and you learn requirements everyday. You know how to incorporate math and you know how to analyze a text.…
The standard definition when most people think of accountability or being accountable is accepting responsibility. Though this is true, to me accountability means: letting your actions rise above your excuses, overcome your fear and accept responsibility for the consequences you are accountable for. Accountability is liberating and requires a willingness to answer questions from those people affected by your actions. Accountability means to have the ability to follow through with your commitments you make for yourself or for others. It means honoring, exceeding, and improving standards.…
Our week off from school was awesome And fun. But I wonder what my friend did over the week. I am going to tell the differences and similarities between me and her break off of school. Over the week she had read some books, but I did not read most of the week. She was lucky to finish a book…
Dr. Kurt A. Wiesenfeld states that college students in today 's society were brought up on “gold stars for effort and smiley faces for self-esteem” and I completely agree with this statement. Students having been rewarded for everything in their childhood still have the demented illusion that they will be rewarded for whatever they do. The problem with this, however, is that students are performing with minimal effort and still expecting outrageous grades in return. I personally know multiple people who do the minimum amount of work required, when they receive a poor grade in return they throw a tantrum. They freak out to the teacher.…
A student is also more likely to be on their professor’s good side if they are able to show respect for attending their class. It is a proven fact that those who attend school have better grades opposed to those who do not. Those who do not attend class cannot ask the teacher a question they may have about an upcoming assignment. They may be able to send their teacher an email but a response is not always guaranteed.…
Back to School, Really! Returning to school might just be a great place to begin my story. We all know that acquiring an education can be a scary experience, especially if you are approaching 50 years old. Therefore, when I made the decision to return to school, I knew it very well might be the hardest decision that I would ever have to make. I dreamed about this place, about campus life, or if it was too late for me to consider the notion.…
The study of class attendance in correlation with student grades was also statistically significant in determining the level of student performance. The research demonstrated the lack of attendance was significant in explaining why a student would receive a D for a course grade rather than an A, B, or C.(Chan) Statistics showed that regular attendance was a significant determinant in minimizing a student’s chance of getting a D or an F.(Chan) The same data was used to determine the relative impact of each absence in the student’s final grade for a particular course. Results showed absence from a class was statistically significant in lowering the grade of the typical student.…
Finding new ways to persuade students to be present to class is vital for the administration. Eliminating one day per week could be enough to motivate the students to attend class more frequently. As a consequence to this solution, the attendance policy would be more strict, fewer days would be allowed to miss, and classes would be longer. Every class Monday-Thursday would be an hour and thirty minutes long, instead of having fifty minute classes on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and an hour and a half classes on Tuesday and Thursday. Nevertheless, with a four-day school week, students would be able to fit more activities in on their three day break for friends and family, relaxation, and job responsibilities.…
Learning English as a second language is very challenging, but not impossible. As it is the way in any type of language, mastering the English language requires frequent reading, talking, and writing. As a freshman student at Tennessee State University, I am taking the English 1010course, and I have been studying and preparing for thecourse very hard to achieve the highestgrade possible in the class. This commitment demandsplenty of time and hard work. It also requires a diligent consistency.…