Ariz. college to position sensors to check class attendance

TheBadgerHerald ^ | May 4, 2010 | David Brazy

[pnh102]

This is stupid. The college gets paid whether or not the students attend class and if students choose not to attend a class, that is their own problem.

[Recon Dad]

to allow distance education services where students could attend classes from home

If they gave me the choice between class and dorm to attend class I would have never left the dorm.
I’m not saying I would have got any more work done, but I wouldn’t have felt as guilty about the extra rack time.

[Pearls Before Swine]

The new system will use sensors to detect students’ university identification cards when they enter classrooms...

Why not just chip'em with implantable RFID?

[Paine in the Neck]

NAU spokesperson Tom Bauer: " ...and, boy, I’m like ‘wow,’..."

sigh...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

There was one class I went to in college where I busted the grading curve every test, highest grade in the class sometimes by nearly ten points, and I only went to class for tests (because the guy instructing it was a lot more confusing than the textbook)...Attendance does not necessarily equal high grades and learning....

[TNdandelion]

I know. All that expense and effort for technology that’s useless in that capacity.

[JimRed]

So, the savvy kid will walk past the classroom or lecture hall door, wave the card through the opening and keep walking as he is recorded “present”.

[ConservativeWarrior]

This is a more efficient way of taking roll, but certainly not a more effective one.

My freshman work study job was a single project: Determine the number of students in each classroom at each hour of each day.

It took me 7 months to completely map out facilities utilization. A good portion of the rooms were utilized less than half the time. Only a handful were ever more than half full at any given time. I gave the liberal arts classrooms a double sampling, just to be sure. (see also: live nude subjects)

[Daffynition]

Why not just chip'em with implantable RFID?

...in the hospital nursery while a social security number is issued simultaneously. ;(

[Sloth]

For $3 I’ll carry your card to class.

[Daffynition]

Why thanks. FWIW if the prof is any good ...I’d carry yours for you. ;)