When you were a student... Did you turn in your assignments or not?
When I was a student, it NEVER occurred to me to NOT do an assignment. I may not have wanted to do them... I may have procrastinated and done them at the last minute, but I'd always do them, and I'd usually get good grades on them.
Tell me about what you did when you were a student. I think I have some slackers!
3 comments:
Ok,
Since I'm a student, I have to respond to this.
I (almost) always turn in assignments!
I am the same as you, it never occurs to me to not do an assignment.
However, on occasion it has come down to priorities. I have (once or twice) skipped a 5 point assignment, simply because I had a much bigger, much more important presentation due the same day or something.
Also, some profs really don't care if it's a couple of days late. Especially if they are just going to hand it off to their marker. So, if it came down to the crunch, I'd opt for a good night's sleep, and try my luck handing it in a day or two late.
But those situations have only happened a handful of times. I'm a pretty good student overall. I've been on the Dean's List every year of school so far (I'm nearing the end of my fourth year now), I'm currently working on my honours thesis, and I have applied to Grad school for September (I'll find out in April if I got in!).
So, I wouldn't say I'm a typical student.
What kind of assignmet is it that your students aren't handing in? What percentage is it worth of their overall mark? And what are the student's schedule's like for their other classes? Because for me, at least, this is the busiest time of year!
I was a good student. I turned in everything. I procrastinated for sure, but I worked best under pressure. I'd usually get good grades - just not in computer science, ha! :-)
I did nod off in one particular class though...it was an 8am class...I had a seat by the window in a sunny spot. The teacher would turn off the lights and show a slide show everyday of archeological artificats. He had a monotone, droning voice. I couldn't help it. In fact, I think he wanted us to fall asleep.
In the final year of my degree I worked out that Computer Science had a ridiculously high workload and I was really good at sitting exams, then, for each course, I worked out I'd pass without doing one major assignment and so I skipped them (that makes it sound easy - actually it was fraught). I figured that just because there were Comp Sci students who'd happily spend 14 hours a day in the computer labs didn't mean that the dept had the right to expect that of us.
One course had huge programming project worth only 10%, everyone moaned, I just didn't do it, after the marks were out I bumped into the lecturer in the hallway and he said "Why didn't you hand in the project? I decided to change it from 10% to 20% of the final mark because everyone complained. You were the only student that was adversely affected and you still passed." I was speechless and am still pissed with him.
So - a student can choose to only do what is required to pass the course. They might do it because their lazy, because they have different priorities, because they are confident that they can acheive their goals without it, or all three.
[I've been computerless hence not reading or posting much].
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