making capital investment decisions throughout the semester. Professor Schott has gone through each chapter carefully well making sure that each student grasps each concept before moving on. He has used many tools such as LearnSmart, lectures and homework assignments to make sure that us students have a good idea of the concept before giving us exams. Throughout the course, we have had to do LearnSmart assignments each week over the chapter we are going cover in class. These LearnSmart assignments
Do stacks of homework really help students learn or just overwhelm them? According to scholastic.com “A long-term national survey discovered that the proportion of six- to eight-year-old children who reported having homework on a given day had climbed from 34 percent in 1981 to 64 percent in 2002, and the weekly time they spent studying at home more than doubled.” A big portion of students get bad grades because their homework is not done. The reason behind that is not because students are lazy,
causes young adolescents to rebel against community service and volunteer work. According to the Cognitive Evaluation Theory study, people tend to resist and lose interest in what is being asked of them when they feel they are being controlled by an outside source because of the human nature of individualism(Pearce 1).This is already seen in other school situations, such as with homework. Many children will often refuse to do rudimentary or simple homework assignments all because the teacher made them
students to plagiarize.” (Mayfield, 2001, p1) There is an increasing number of online cheating websites which students use. Along with these sites come programs which help teachers and professors detect student plagiarism. Besides the internet students have found ways to use watches, cell phones, calculators, and PDA’s to help them cheat on tests or other assignments. Of the students who do cheat the majority of them believe that what they are doing is not wrong and they feel that copying answers
Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU) provides tutoring services through the Academic Assistance and Resource Center (AARC). The AARC provides academic aid and support, which can help any student who is struggling with a difficult subject. Tutors can assist students on homework and show students what they need to practice in order to understand a subject or skill, they help encourage higher levels of thinking, and increases ability to manage one’s own learning. One advantage of the AARC is that
small hand-held devices. Such things are cell phones, digital camera, PDA’s and lap-tops. These items are so high tech that they are able to store large amount of data that can be utilized to gather information to be used in assignments, exams and homework in the ways of cheating. Rather than worry about study for the test, students simply break into database and change their final grade. But one question that is being asked is why students get to that point of risking everything that they have worked
Classroom Observation I officially began my career as a student teacher in Spanish on August 25, 2014 at Memorial High School in Smallville, Ohio. I work under the guidance of Mrs. Santer, my mentor teacher, who has been introducing WMHS students to the wonderful world of languages for over 30 years. This year Mrs. Santer is teaching various levels of Spanish (Advanced Placement, IV, III, and I) as well as French I. Mrs. Santer’s classroom is just what you would expect a world language classroom
another state. The distance from home, family, and friends, can cause students to be in a depressed state. The new atmosphere of college is very exciting to students; but at times very scary. For some students, adapting to classes and all of their homework can get overwhelming thus that can cause depression. It is clear to see that college freshman are thrown many obstacles, but depression is a hard one to avoid. Having your loved ones wake you up every morning for school and preparing you for your
December 1, 2013 Homework is Harmful Homework is a very debatable topic. Is homework helpful or harmful? Some say that homework is helpful because it helps teachers know if a student understands the topic that he or she is working on in class. But, does that mean homework is helpful for the student? I say homework is harmful. Students have very busy schedules, and have many late nights throughout a typical school week. On top of the late nights at sports games, they still have homework to do when he
any business. While our teacher thought this to only be a joke it made a tremendous impression on my friend’s censor and how she would go about the activities she did from then on. Therefore schools need to encourage the acceptance of mistakes and help children realize the boundaries between expectations and being perfect while also promoting confidence in their ability to succeed. Perfectionist struggle with being unable to control a situation, Brenda Gargus suggests tha... ... middle of paper