Some undergraduate students are not attending classes, hence they are not performing well. To improve attendance proper efforts are needed.
The attendance rate is important because students are more likely to succeed in academics when they attend school consistently.
The problem with today’s learning system is that the learners often get stuck while using traditional learning systems because they can’t motivate them to fast learning and make a creative mind.
It's difficult for the teacher and the class to build their skills and progress if a large number of students are frequently absent.
There are several successful strategies to improve students absenteeism like: Use rewards and incentives to encourage attendance and punctuality, Sound and reasonable attendance policies with consequences for missing school, Early interventions, especially with elementary students and their families, Targeted interventions for students with chronic attendance...
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https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED484551.pdf
Attendance is the best predictor of doing well in my classes and I've been systematically testings ways to improve attendance. I do not require attendance, but even in my 150+ student lecture classes, I usually have attendance of 85% for each non-test day. Here are approaches that work for me: (1) Take attendance. Though it might sound silly, the mere act of recording who is present shows students you care about their attendance. In my smaller classes I take attendance on a map of the classroom so it helps me learn names quickly. (2) Show students the data. I make scatter-plots showing how students who attend class earn higher grades. I mention this in the syllabus and the first day of class. And after each test I report the correlation between attendance and the test grade. (3) Show you care. Students who miss 4+ classes by midway through the semester get an email from me. Avoid scolding; it's to express concern and ask if they're okay. Responses vary from no response, to apologies, to mentions of extenuating circumstances, to appreciation for "checking in." It has led me to refer students to the health center, to campus mental health resources, or encouraging students to stop by to go over tests when a struggling with feeling hopeless and giving up. Hope some of these suggestions work for you, Anil. ~ Kevin
There are many factors that play into attendance or the lack of it. Surprisingly, they may have nothing to do with the teacher’s performance. On the other hand, if the students know that attendance per se, may affect their assessment, then they might just show up without concentrating or having any motivation whatsoever. In this case, the actual purpose of student-lecturer interaction – which is learning – will unfortunately not take place. Whose fault?
A little investigation will always help map the situation:
1) Students' profiles: Are many of them working and studying at the same time? Some have to survive by missing some lectures that they think they can manage without attending. Are there a bunch of confused young lads who need help and attention? Some undergrads are a delicate group who need some nurturing and support. Don't underestimate the duty of care.
2) Is your course schedule conflicting with other courses that the students may have chosen? This can easily be fixed by rearranging things.
3) Is the course/module content-focused or learner-focused? If it is the latter, then the students will mostly be presented with several activating opportunities such as discussions, group work, and collaborative assignments which require them to actually do something about the learning process with the other students because they are the one's who must be learning. Your responsibility is to teach and guide them to discover more.
4) What do you think is the return on investment when the students show up in the lecture room? For example, if the subject is useful but made very boring with countless slides with a lot of good information, then they might as well read that on their own and save time. On the other hand, if the classroom is where the lecturer weaves in personal experiences, interesting stories and examples or poses questions that provoke critical thinking and sometimes diversifies the mode of delivery to make student participation a crucial aspect of the course, then the interest is immediately generated. They will want to be there as active listeners, taking notes, critically reflecting and asking questions.
Some suggestions:
a) Know your students (even if the class is too large, try and have an idea about their profile)
b) Change the method by making students participate in the deep learning for knowledge acquisition, not surface learning for passing exams.
c) Create opportunities for them to do the learning by revisiting the course structure.
d) Don't worry, the solution is very simple. Make students aware that it is their responsibility to do the learning and yours is to guide and teach. They should help you by responding to your motivation. But the earlier you create this awareness the better. Hope this helps.
Thanks to: Kevin Grobman, Pankaj Tomar, Milan B. Vemić, Frederick Ahen for your valuable contributions.
The attendance rate is important because students are more likely to succeed in academics when they attend school consistently.
The problem with today’s learning system is that the learners often get stuck while using traditional learning systems because they can’t motivate them to fast learning and make a creative mind.
It's difficult for the teacher and the class to build their skills and progress if a large number of students are frequently absent.
There are several successful strategies to improve students absenteeism like: Use rewards and incentives to encourage attendance and punctuality, Sound and reasonable attendance policies with consequences for missing school, Early interventions, especially with elementary students and their families, Targeted interventions for students with chronic attendance...
Se more on:
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED484551.pdf
I have experienced that students seating on the first three to four benches regularly attend classes, while students seating at the back benches have less attendance. So I believe that there should be maximum 40 students in the class so that we can interact with each students and if they see that teacher knows me, gives attention on me then they will feel free to discuss subject related queries. If the no. of students are more in class, then most of the time of teacher is spent to make them sit quietly. And teacher find difficult to complete the targeted work within the limited time. Hence there may not be any interaction with some of the students and day by day they shows less interest in the subject and the problem of attendance is created.
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