Assuming that the reason behind this is to make students attend there are
possibly better ways. One proving popular and successful in our School of
business is "cue cards". Students can give in cue cards of notes they have
made on the week's pre-reading as they enter the lecture/seminar room. All the
cards given in are returned to them priuor to the end of term exam and they are
able to use them as reference in the exam (as in an open book exam).
The result is that students both attend the sessions and do the pre-reading.
(A useful groundrule is to insist that cards are hand written and signed, and
tell students that rules of plagiarism apply to the cards, to stop
entrepreneurial students mass producing them)
Best wishes
Chris Rust
OCSLD
>I have been asked to write a paper on the use of attendance as an assessment
>criteria.
>
>Does anybody have any experience, or thoughts about this?
>
>David Andrew
>Faculty Co-ordinator of Teaching and Learning
>The Business School
>University of North London
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>Tel ext 3011 or 0171-753-5122
>http://homepages.unl.ac.uk/~dandrew/
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