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How should a Professor Incentivize Classroom Attendance?
- akarambir 15y agobest line- "one truth I quickly learned in college was that professors who made attendance at their lectures irrelevant were the only ones who needed an attendance policy."
- Turing_Machine 15y agoRight. I never worry about attendance, or whether people are surfing the web in class or whatnot. Their money, their choice. You can lead a student to knowledge but you can't make him think (somewhat sanitized version of a Dorothy Parker quote :-). The only exception would be if no-shows cause harm to their fellow students (e.g., they're working on some kind of group project). Similarly, I don't allow loud talking in a face-to-face class -- it's up to you whether you want to pay attention, but you don't get to interfere with the students who do.