Difficult student who also can’t pass failed to withdraw by the deadline.
Pour some out for my evals and sanity
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Hopefully, they will also fail to complete the evals. In real life, it will be – professor never encouraged me to succeed, kept telling me to drop the class, didn’t believe in me 😆
I wish I could foster that hope but in my experience the likelihood of filling out evals increases with the proportion of missed/failed work.
In my ideal world, a student's eval score would be weighted by how many assessments they completed. Complete 100% of the work? Your eval score is fully weighted (=1) in calculating my average eval score. Complete 50% of the work? Your eval score is worth half of your fully par...
Many of ours won’t and take the F because of financial aid. The financial aid system is broken both by handing out checks directly to students to begin with and then by continuing to fund failing.
This. I have students who will be failing, I'll let them know and suggest they withdraw before the deadline, but then they still come to classes but don't do any work, in order to still receive financial aid (state university) We have a reporting system for the beginning of t...
For a lot of students if they drop below a certain number of credits they aren’t eligible for financial aid. And they also can only have, like, 3 withdrawals ever that are allowed. So it’s better to fail and then retake the class to replace the F. Whether that happens is a dif...
Can't blame them I suppose for a stupid system like this. I think most of my students might be able to take 4 courses (12 credits) a semester, but in order to graduate in 4 years, you have to take more, whether you can handle it or not. Then when they fail courses, they have...
SAME. They didn’t even sit for the second exam. Not sure what they expect from be but I’m sure it’s all my fault lol
So I teach a core class that everyone in the CoB has to take regardless of major. It’s math heavy and CRAMMED with info. It’s a two semester class condensed to one. Most students hate taking it. After the first couple of semesters of only getting a few evals a semester, all of...
I've got one of those this term, but they still have one more week to Withdraw. I have my fingers crossed.
Rooting for you!
Sometimes they really earn those grades, don’t they?
Back in the day, we did them in class and if students weren’t in class that day, they did not fill one out. Prof left the room.
I had a student fail my class 3 times. He had taken the same class twice with 2 other professors. (Same class, I just took over teaching when I joined). He's finally passed the class in his 6th attempt over the summer. 🤞🏽 My advice is: it could always be worse 😂
I'm shocked your school allows this! Where I am, after their 3rd attempt they need instructor permission to retake it. Every time.
I had someone once who was on their fifth attempt on the same class (third with me). I asked and they said that they liked me better than the other people who teach the class. Uh ... thanks, I guess.
I’ve generally found poor students don’t bother with evals
This happens to me almost every year. Last semester I had a student who mathematically could not pass my course before the final exams started. I let him know (nicely) and suggested he would be better off spending his time studying for other course exams than taking my test....