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Step 3: Explore Strategies

Explore potential strategies.

My students don’t come to lecture.

The time of day is not appealing to students (e.g., early morning, late afternoon).

Strategies:

Create an incentive to attend.

Take advantage of students’ obsession with grades by linking attendance to grades. For example, you can make attendance a part of the grade or you can administer a very short quiz at the beginning of class, e.g., student response systems (now present in many CM classrooms) allow you to administer and grade these quizzes easily.

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