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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,sci.math,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Student preparedness
Message-ID: <571@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 14:52:25 GMT
References: <4893@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <6435@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <558@mccc.UUCP> <3350@arcturus>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <3350@arcturus> kathryn@arcturus.UUCP (Kathryn Fielding) writes:
=In article <558@mccc.UUCP>, pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
=> Never understood why a student wouldn't come to class.  A class meeting
=> has as its goal making learning easier.
=
=Well, off the top of my head, I can think of a few reasons why students
=might feel that it is not worthwhile going to class:
=
=1) A professor who reads the text verbatim and only works examples in the
=   book, even when asked to do others by the students.
=
=2) An instructor who fails to answer questions. If I spend several hours trying
=   to solve a problem, and approach the instructor for guidance, I expect
=   something a little more enlightening than "It's intuitively obvious" or
=   "I'll get back to you" and when asked again, repeats the response.
=
=3) An instructor who's English communication skills are so poor that the
=   class (including the TA) is unable to understand him.
=
=These example are all drawn from personal experience, and involve instructors
=from three different universities.

Good points, KF!  I guess I forget that there are *bad* instructors out
there.




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