Posted on 08/23/2021 6:40:13 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
The challenging statistics on reading show a steep decline in student reading compliance. These trends are emerging not just at primary and secondary education level, but increasingly at a university level.
Students often underestimate the centrality of course readings. They rarely regard textbooks and academic papers as their primary source of information.
This often results in a lack of class participation, rich conversations and, at times, assessment quality.
In our increasingly technological world, new online and application solutions have assisted students with motivation and supported their learning preferences. Digital technology has made access to academic texts more flexible. However, some researchers argue screen-based reading may compromise the quality of the readers’ engagement.
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The reason why no one does the assigned reading is that 955 of the reading will never appear on an exam and professor’s are so lazy they dont want to include essay or open questions on a test. It is all multiple choice or fill in the blank. Further many books are long winded and you could sum up 50 pages into half a page.
Some assigned readings are ridiculous
Here’s a better tip: flunk them.
You have to give them an A to find out what’s in the readings.
(paraphrase of Ice Cream Nancy)
Shouldn’t need more than one helpful hint - test them on the readings.
I bet that wouldn’t happen if they didn’t mooch taxpayer dollars
If it is important enough for the exam, it’s important enough for the lecture.
“rich conversations”
College is now an indoctrination center. There are no deviations from the official narrative. Why bother reading and contemplating when you receive an “A” for parroting the company line?
MEDICAL SCHOOL STUDENT: “How can you do all the assigned reading and still have so much time on your hands?”
JOE SLOVAK (BRILLIANT BUT UNDERACHIEVING STUDENT): “I only read the headings of each section. 80% of what you need to know is in the headings.”
OTHER STUDENT: “What did you get on the last Human Anatomy exam?”
SLOVAK: “80%.”
Confession time—a college room-mate and I had decided to take the same course in our freshman year. It was a boring
general course that was needed to be allowed to take the more interesting stuff as a sophomore.
It consisted of lectures with hundreds of students in the auditorium, so the professor had no idea who was there.
So, we each attended half of the lectures and did half of the readings.
The week before the exams we spent several evenings trading info on both the readings and the lectures—and discussed them until we were comfortable with the material.
We both aced the course!
Lolz
Congratulations to you and your roommate!
The primary (though unwritten) course objective was to sharpen your bull5hit detecting skills and you passed with flying colors!
Like freepers that don’t read the linked article or even the excerpt before commenting.
"I was elected to lead, not to read."
That ship sailed 40 years ago.
My Junior year with a double major of history and philosophy I was banging out 500 pages a day. It sucked but I learned a lot of stuff that made no difference in my life.
And just what’s the matter with that?
I dunno. I graduated college more than 3 decades ago. But I distinctly recall one of my 400 level (senior year) classes and I was seemingly the only one in class to do the work. Professor would ask a question and only I could give the answer. It got rather embarrassing, to the point that I would just mumble the answer as he walked past me in the aisles tongue lashing the class “do any of you actually do the reading assignments”?
Of course, I got an A.
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