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<blockquote data-quote="GTpdm" data-source="post: 851665" data-attributes="member: 1451"><p>As a faculty member at Tech who teaches one of the large core-curriculum courses, I’ve developed what I think of as the Law of Twenty Percent (not 10%): Pick any course activity—homework, recitation, lecture attendance…even something as simple as, “picking up one’s test after it has been graded, to see what you got wrong”. You will always find 20% who don’t bother with that activity, or only do a half-hearted job of it—even when you point to hard statistics at the start of the term, showing that lack of effort in these areas always results in test scores that are 10-15 points lower than everyone else.</p><p></p><p>I can say, “If you don’t do ‘X’, you are 75% likely to end up with a D or F in the course”…and 20% still won’t bother with ‘X’. They simply don’t want to believe that such statistics apply to them.</p><p></p><p>For example: back in the old days when we actually returned physical copies of the tests to students, I could spot the people who were going to get Ds and Fs, simply by noting the people who didn’t pick up their first test. That prediction, usually made about 4 weeks into the semester, would typically be 90% accurate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GTpdm, post: 851665, member: 1451"] As a faculty member at Tech who teaches one of the large core-curriculum courses, I’ve developed what I think of as the Law of Twenty Percent (not 10%): Pick any course activity—homework, recitation, lecture attendance…even something as simple as, “picking up one’s test after it has been graded, to see what you got wrong”. You will always find 20% who don’t bother with that activity, or only do a half-hearted job of it—even when you point to hard statistics at the start of the term, showing that lack of effort in these areas always results in test scores that are 10-15 points lower than everyone else. I can say, “If you don’t do ‘X’, you are 75% likely to end up with a D or F in the course”…and 20% still won’t bother with ‘X’. They simply don’t want to believe that such statistics apply to them. For example: back in the old days when we actually returned physical copies of the tests to students, I could spot the people who were going to get Ds and Fs, simply by noting the people who didn’t pick up their first test. That prediction, usually made about 4 weeks into the semester, would typically be 90% accurate. [/QUOTE]
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