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If you are in college does your professor or teaching assistant take attendence? If so, what is the maximum number of absences in relation to the total number of classes? Do you feel taking attendence is really necessary? Or should a student be able to just read the class materials and show up only when he/she wishes or when there is a test.
Usually no, and your professors won't baby you either. In college you do the work and improve yourself or you fail. It's as simple as that.
But why in the world would you pay tens of thousands of dollars to be be taught stuff and then not show up for class? Why not save the money for better parties? College is OPTIONAL...unlike high school.
Naw, it's a fair enough question. I thought the same thing when I was in High School: "Dude, how cool will that be... I'll just show up for my 'effin tests and party the rest of the time!" I said to my friends...
Well I'm 32 now and I still have occasional dreams where It's finals time and I haven't been showing up for class. Then I wake up, hug my degree and then use it to wipe my a$$ because I still can't afford to buy TP despite the thousands of dollars and thousands of hours I invested into that piece of paper. But at least I have my OWN basement now instead of mommy's.
Silly kids and their funny ideas about adulthood...
^^still a fair question, even if it is from a questionable source^^
w/ my majors, more than 3 absences= automatic F (by the third absence, your grade has dropped by a letter). some teachers may be more flexible w/ excused absences (i.e, major illness like the H1N1 scare last year, death in the family, etc), but this is a dept. wide policy, and from what I've seen, a school wide one
being a writing and TV major, attendance is a near must w/ a lot of my classes. there is a lot of peer editing, a lot of group critiques and group projects. we don't even have tests, so just showing up for those isn't even an option (and good luck just showing up from a presentation). YMMV depending on the school and major of course, but I don't see the point in paying $$$ to not show up.
w/ my majors, more than 3 absences= automatic F (by the third absence, your grade has dropped by a letter). some teachers may be more flexible w/ excused absences (i.e, major illness like the H1N1 scare last year, death in the family, etc), but this is a dept. wide policy, and from what I've seen, a school wide one
Yes, this is what I experienced. In my major classes (music theory, music history, early childhood music, etc...) attendance was taken. In other classes? Not so much.
There's an attendance policy at my college, but most teachers outside of the gen ed and lower level courses don't bother to enforce it because it's assumed that frequent absentees are going to fail regardless.
I don't recall any attendance taken or attendance policy. But most of my courses were studio courses and the creative development progress was THE grade, not the end result. There were always a few people who thought they could show up at the end and turn in something but they always failed. The profs didn't really need to call roll or anything like that since it was always obvious who wasn't there in the pinups and crits.
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If you are in college does your professor or teaching assistant take attendance? If so, what is the maximum number of absences in relation to the total number of classes? Do you feel taking attendance is really necessary? Or should a student be able to just read the class materials and show up only when he/she wishes or when there is a test.
Back in the day, they did. The answer to your question is pretty obvious: If you intend to pass, you ought to be there.
At my current college, there are strict attendance policies. As my first college, there were little/no attendance policies. IMHE, the better colleges and universities don't have strict attendance policies b/c they don't need them and b/c they are actual colleges rather than extended high schools.
We are allowed two absences and we must have documentation. I miss class at least 2-4 times each semester, mostly b/c I live about an hour away. They take off from your grade but my grades have always been high, so it has very little effect on me, except to annoy the bejesus out of me to be treated like a child at 35.
My college didn't really have "attendance policies" but since it was a small school with a philosophy of discussion based classes, it would really hurt your grades to not show up. The only class with a true attendance policy was my foreign language class (since spoken French was a huge component of the grade) and that caused problems when I got very sick partway through the semester and missed a lot of class.
I'm starting grad school in a few weeks and discussion/class participation are about 50% of the grade for several of my classes. Of course, it's theater, which is collaborative and not something you can learn by just reading a book, but still . . . why would you pay a lot of money to go to college and then not show up?
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