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
2016 The Shackles of Homework Across the nation, countless students tirelessly work on homework after 6 long, hard hours of education. Though this may give some teachers pleasure in knowing that their students will continue their education outside of class, what this truly does is hinder student’s participation in extracurricular activities, lose sleep, and gain stress. Tiresome homework, strenuous and laborious, affects all students, no matter the age. Finishing their homework, many high and middle
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,
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
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
spent on after-school activities. Most of us engage in clubs and sports. Most of us have jobs and participate in community service. Most of us stay after school hours to get the help we need with our school work. After all the time spent on school and extracurricular activities, there is not enough time to finish homework and study for big tests. Thus, we rush through the homework, we learn the information insufficiently, and we get no value from it. If we shorten the school
I agree with the student’s opinion that weekly homework and quizzes are a negative and direct incentive. Positive incentives, especially in learning settings, are usually not enough to encourage students to complete tasks in a timely manner. Students understand that if they do not finish the work assigned they will get a bad grade in the course, or maybe fail the course, which makes it an encouraging negative incentive. Even though gaining knowledge is the main goal when taking a course, the incentive
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
The stressful school year has begun and the homework immediately starts to pile up. Some people might think hours of homework every night is necessary in helping students continue to learn and progress in that specific subject. “...homework can ensure that they are learning well morning, noon and night”, understanding that some adults want students to learn every night to ensure they know the material, however in most cases the overloading of homework tends to do the opposite. The rising problem
Student’s homework amount should be decreases due to the amount of time used to do Homework. When students have too much homework it can cause them to have stress. When students have a lot of homework it cuts into their free time. When students have too much homework it has no point and it makes kids bored. Limiting the amount of homework given to students does guarantee better grade, reminding one that student need to see the value in school. When students are given homework they shouldn’t be
up past midnight every night doing the homework that six different teachers assign! If you want us to keep our grades up and succeed, giving us more work and more stress is not the way to do it. Homework should be eliminated from Yucaipa High School in order for the students to be more focused in class the next day. With all of the homework that we are given most students aren’t getting enough sleep which makes us less focused in class the next day. Homework also adds to the pressure of being in high
December 6th, 2014 Believe me when I tell you nothing is worse than coming home from a seven hour day at school then to a long hard practice and then doing more than four hours of homework each night. What a time to be alive they always say but not for teenagers who are consistently struggling over the hours of homework they are assigned each night. An average student probably takes at least one or two APs a year and above average student usually takes three or four. Each student is assigned to six
every student, the beast that devours all happiness in life: homework. Assignments can be tedious and are stacked on top of a student’s busy lifestyle, leading to sleepless nights and weariness. Homework causes an epidemic of stress and sleep deprivation resulting in overwhelming fatigue and ultimately deemed unneccessary for success. Students are consumed in extra curricular activities such as sports, clubs, band and others; homework must be done within a small window of time but ultimately tramples
1. My teaching subject area and anticipated grade level: Physical Education in a High School setting. 2a. How are students to signal that they want my attention and help? In a physical education setting, this could sometimes be tough. However, considering my head will always be up, a simple gesture such as having the students put both hands in the air would let me know that they need me. Since students will be moving around, running to me for assistance would make things more chaotic. 2b.
college when they do not have any motivation to be there? To be a successful college student, you need to set priorities and have time management. Chegg (2011) said that for every student, college is a balancing act between going to classes, doing homework, having a social life, and, for many students, holding down a job. The successful student knows how much time to allot to each of their assignments and knows when to set their limits. Time management is crucial to becoming
As students, we’ve grown in a society in which homework is used to reinforce educational concepts outside of the classroom, but would if I told you that homework is holding us back… homework after all is just extra work assigned by teachers to help students grasp concepts. However, how are students expected to participate in after-school commitments or sports or other events if us students are always occupied with homework? In a Stanford study conducted in 2014 by Denise Pope, a senior lecturer
significant amount of students and professors time, are added stress throughout the year, will not fix a students procrastination, and having high stake tests prepares students for their future. Some of O 'Malley 's ideas seem reasonable and would help students while others are an inconvenience for the professor and students. O 'Malley suggests in his essay that professors should give weekly quizzes or review worksheets. The average, full-time college student takes five or six courses per semester
it to match student needs. While this is not a bad thing, they tailor the course work to be a lot easier. Many times, classes seem to have less work when students are struggling with the course work. Teachers become even more lax and assign less homework and big assignments so they do not have hundreds of failing students. This can make school quite boring for some students. Even advanced and honors classes can be too easy for some students. A lot of my friends are taking college classes all day