There was never an attendance policy set up, yet on any given day, the entire class was present minus one or two. Even when the entire class knew we were just going to do a power point lecture on a specific topic that we could all find online, we still came to class. I believe the motivation factor of this was the expectancy theory we discussed. As the professor, you told us that if we put n the effort, and perform all the requirements, that we would achieve our goals for the class. There were no grades all semester, so there were no incentives. We learned that incentives do not work, because they are short lasting. I found this most evident in the final presentation day. My group presented on the last day, and half the class had already gone, and was done with all their assignments. These groups did not have to be there, but instead chose to be there to listen to the other two groups
There was never an attendance policy set up, yet on any given day, the entire class was present minus one or two. Even when the entire class knew we were just going to do a power point lecture on a specific topic that we could all find online, we still came to class. I believe the motivation factor of this was the expectancy theory we discussed. As the professor, you told us that if we put n the effort, and perform all the requirements, that we would achieve our goals for the class. There were no grades all semester, so there were no incentives. We learned that incentives do not work, because they are short lasting. I found this most evident in the final presentation day. My group presented on the last day, and half the class had already gone, and was done with all their assignments. These groups did not have to be there, but instead chose to be there to listen to the other two groups