Those darn students!

[logisticslad]

We finally got the med students' test rewritten and everthing is set for Monday's exam. I gave a lecture today that the students had been told would not be covered on monday's exam. Less than 15% of the class came to lecture. Now lectures are videotaped and available by streaming video download, so I am sure that they will watch the lecture, eventually. However, I was pretty pissed. So I used my Course Director perogative and shared with the few who attended some specific hints about what to know for the exam. I felt that those few who chose to attend a scheduled lecture should have value added for doing what they should.

Comments

[jaidit.livejournal.com]

Never, never, never tell students that it won't be covered on an exam.

Good way to deal with those who missed the lecture. I had a professor announce that he was going to do that. "The final lecture is optional; I'll be covering the exam." I don't think any of us were foolish enough to miss that one.