Hi,
I would be interested in opinions about required attendance
in developmental courses; there is evidence that attendance significantly
impacts learning, and college success.
This
may be college, but we're still taking attendance: Colleges try to stem dropout rates by reaching out to students who skip
classes.
That
part of taking attendance is pretty standard. But what comes next makes
Professor Diehl's class and other freshmen classes at
DEVELOPMENTAL COURSES
The Answer is Attendance! Academic success correlates
strongly with high rates of class attendance in an introductory biology course
for first-year developmental education students.
Regular
attendance appears to be such an obvious condition for success in college as to
hardly warrant further discussion. Based on the author's
experience teaching at-risk students for six years in the same institutional setting,
students who miss too many classes end up doing poorly, withdrawing, or
requiring significant help in the form of one-on-one meetings or tutoring in
order to catch up.
Required
Attendance: University of Texas
Students who are required to enroll
in Developmental Education because they have failed one or more parts of the
THEA examination are subject to the following policies.
Students sign a contract that states
that they understand class attendance is mandatory and if they are absent and
do not follow the procedure in the contract, they will
be withdrawn from The University of Texas at
Required
Attendance: BREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE: ENGLISH
DEPARTMENT; ARTS & LETTERS DIVISION
Required attendance will be initiated in the fall of 2004.
Attendance:
LaMar State College
Students enrolled in developmental
courses are expected to attend regularly and complete all assignments and
testing. Students who are absent 6 (six) times within one semester will be
dropped from the course and risk dismissal from LSC-O. In addition to the
attendance policy, instructors may drop a student from a developmental course
for failure to do assigned work and/or testing.
Attendance: St Louis Community
College
Developmental courses must have
attendance policies where sessions missed have a direct impact on students'
grades. As course requirements, attendance policies will necessarily be well
defined in course profiles.
Attendance:
Howard County Community College
Students enrolled in college preparatory course work due to
the Success Initiative policy are required to regularly attend and participate
in
class activities. Students who miss six (6) hours or more of class may be
penalized and may fail the class due to lack of
attendance. Instructors have the option to drop students for lack of
attendance, or the instructor may choose to give the grade they
earn.
The instructor will state his or her attendance policy in the course syllabus.
Students are responsible for keeping track of
their attendance and, if needed, checking with their instructors to see if
absences threaten the successful completion of a course.
All developmental education courses have attendance policies
provided with the course syllabus. Success
in
class is directly linked to attendance.
NONDEVELOPMENTAL COURSES
HUM2461
LATIN AMERICAN HUMANITIES: Valencia Community College
Attendance is required. There will
be information presented to the class in lecture, discussion, video and group
presentation. If you are not present, you cannot participate and it will be
hard to make-up the class. You are allowed 1 absences.
After the second absence, ten points will be deducted for each class meeting
you miss and you will receive a notification of
excessive absence. After the third absence, you may be withdrawn from the
course. You need to talk to me to stay in the class. If you stay in the class
and you miss one more class, your final grade will be lowered one letter grade.
Being late to class or leaving the classroom may also affect your grade. Every
three late marks will be considered one absence. If you are late, you are
responsible of notifying me so I can change you absence mark to a late mark.