Comments on: RFID to check student attendance?

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:54:32 +0000

I could not agree with you more. Student engagement is absolutely the key to student attendance. What equally concerns me is that professors would need to examine data recorded through proximity cards to know which students were in attendance. Class sizes must be manageable so that instructors know their students by name, and have an opportunity to interact with each.

By: Scott Overmyer

Scott Overmyer — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:44:01 +0000

I’m with you George. Students are paying for this experience, and if going to class has no value added over not attending, why force students to attend? Listening to lectures with 350 other people can have some value, but only if the lecture contains content that is: 1) not available elsewhere, 2) more easily understood or pedagogically appropriate than what is available online or in a book, or 3) at least entertaining. From an administrative perspective, keeping track of attendance may have some financial aid and some research implications, but if the idea is to improve attendance, this way is essentially bankrupt.

By: George Veletsianos

George Veletsianos — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:32:32 +0000

solutions aren’t supposed to perpetuate the problems and status quo though The implicit thinking behind the rfids is that students need to come to class because the person who will be there has knowledge to hand out, regardless of the fact that attendance does not translate to learning.

By: R Geurtz

R Geurtz — Wed, 05 May 2010 22:09:19 +0000

RFID to monitor students? not a good solution – however – Kuddos to NAU for trying a solution to a chronic problem at universities where large, lecture style teaching still pervails

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