Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Why Do Students Fail to Submit Assignments?

Again any opinions expressed here are my own and are not meant to criticize any specific institutions or individuals.

For many years I have taught a class on how to find physical and thermodynamic properties of chemical substances.  I give an assignment that should take no more than 2 hours to complete and give a deadline of 2 weeks to complete it.  This semester only 3 of 25 students completed this assignment in 2 weeks?  Why is the rate of completion so low this semester compared to others?  A few weeks ago, we could blame the snow days that disrupted the flow of the semester.  This is a class given to chemistry and chemical engineering majors.  Why is there so much apathy and disinterest?

Likewise, I have taught a few sections of the Research Road Maps which are information literacy sessions given to freshmen students taking humanites courses.  Likewise the submission rate is low, bt more than 12% in the chemistry class that I gave.

I guess I am using this blog to vent.

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