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> I often said that, in my experience, out of a class of thirty students only about five would normally possess the minimum requirements for a college student
by yodsanklai 9y ago
> I often said that, in my experience, out of a class of thirty students only about five would normally possess the minimum requirements for a college student
The question is what to do with these students... What should a teacher do when half of his students don't have the prerequisites to follow his class?
- danieltillett 9y agoWhen I as an academic I used to run extra classes at lunch time for the keen students covering topics that I thought the students needed to learn about, but for which we didn't have time in class. Theses topics were not covered in the exam so only those students interested in learning came. As for those students that don't have the prerequistes or the motivation to do the work to catch up, you fail as many as the university will allow and then scale up the class mark so the rest pass. At my university I couldn't fail more than 3% or 4%, but in some classes more than half really failed.
- downrightmike 9y agoThe professor should write a meaningful intro text book and deliver it as a pdf, rather than use some $400 Wiley textbook they get a kickback from and the chapter and questions get resorted each year so that used books are useless. This is all a racket. Does anyone think that the 25/30 remedial students are going to pay for a $400 or more textbook when they've got more immediate needs (shelter, food, clothing) to pay for?