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Encouraging And Evaluating Class Participation, Kathleen E. Czekanski, Zane Robinson Wolf
Encouraging And Evaluating Class Participation, Kathleen E. Czekanski, Zane Robinson Wolf
Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice
Many faculty interpret student responses to faculty questions as evidence of an actively engaged classroom. Because of this conviction, class participation, whether graded or ungraded, appears in many course syllabi in colleges and universities and is often promoted as the responsibility of students to contribute to the learning environment. Class participation provides faculty with some confidence that learning is taking place during a course and that students are reading assignments. While faculty may debate that attendance should not be used as a stand-in for class participation, this may not be a universally held belief or practice. Some faculty create rubrics …