Questions tagged [students]
Questions pertaining to those being taught at the post-secondary level.
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How to deal with unruly, unengaged students who complain about me?
I got a job 6 months ago as a university lecturer. I was assigned two subjects with the same students. Due to COVID-19, classes are online and lectures are recorded.
From the beginning, the majority ...
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Should one sleep in the afternoon? [closed]
I have two questions.
1. I am a high school student, and due to the amount of work I have, I generally sleep around 6-7 hours at night.
Can I compensate for this by sleeping for about an hour in the ...
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How to deal with students who complain about their exam grades [duplicate]
I am a middle aged academic, and I lived through the phase where academic judgement was untouchable.
Now it has become quite different. The worst days of my year are when I put the grades out, and the ...
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How do I prepare for my research program 2 months ahead of its beginning?
I'm starting a PhD program in the Fall. I know this can be specific to my program, but more generally, what's your advice for an international student preparing for academic success?
I'm going to ...
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How bad would it be to graduate with a thesis not able to show positive results?
I'm almost at the end of my research dissertation for my MSc program and my results could not prove any improvement in the techniques already well established. I relied too much on a paper talking ...
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In which countries is cheating in university exams considered a crime?
In the comments to the question
Methods to track behind cheating on exams using on-line sites?
, Federico Poloni states that cheating is considered a felony in Italy (see
https://www.normattiva.it/...
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What statistics should I disclose when giving grades to students?
When giving grades to students, I often find it interesting to disclose some information about the grades distribution. I imagine that it helps to know where one is situated in comparison to others.
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Is Wiley Plus able to detect when students are cheating?
I am supposed to start teaching on Wiley Plus for the first time this coming summer semester, and as someone who is already not the most tech-savvy, I have concerns regarding students cheating on ...
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How can I address a student systematically boosting their grades by filing frivolous complaints?
I was recently accused of unfair grading by a student. The accusation is meritless, and it didn't take long to prove that I didn't do anything wrong. No damage, but a lot of time wasted.
Later, I ...
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A lecturer wants to grade me based on 'creativity' in a task, how do I succeed?
TLDR: In a course where students are required to do exercises, a programming project and write a report in small groups, the lecturer announced that grading will be based on 'creativity' and how funny ...
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Retroactively Awarding Extra Exam Time
Since the beginning of the Corona Virus pandemic and the adaptation to distance learning, I have had to adapt my classes to hold exams via video calls. In previous semesters when I've had students ...
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How can I politely reply and educate students with unreasonable requests?
I am a professor at uni, and I have been experiencing a number of unreasonable requests from students on these days, some of them arguing that they need a special treatment due to the current Covid-19 ...
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Reporting GPAs from the same university
I have graduated with a BS in Computer science degree with 3.6 GPA from university of X. Then after graduation, I continued taking classes in different program (Biology) but didn't do well and my GPA ...
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Can a Ph.D. student, in the USA, work more than 20 hours per week?
I am a Ph.D. student in the USA. I have a contract with the university to work 20 hours a week. However, I have an idea and want to propose it to a company. Then, I sign a contract with them to do ...
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Accepting An Academic Gift From Supervisor
I have developed a good working relationship with my supervisor and I have expressed my interest in wanting to pursue a PhD in the field that I am working in for my masters degree. I have expressed ...
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How can I ease in to the research arena?
I'm a first year graduate student and my age is 24. I got a degree in statistics, but it was not that interesting. I barely got into a below average grad school program in mathematics. I want to ...
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How to support students whom other faculty abuse?
Some of the students in my class take a class with another member of faculty. That other, tenured, member of faculty has taken to abusing individual students in front of the whole class. This abuse ...
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What are your responsibilities if a student announces their intention to commit a crime? [closed]
As a faculty member, it can happen that a student tells you that they are intending to commit a crime (while also attempting to swear you to secrecy). This might be something as simple as buying ...
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regarding a graduate program research methods course
To whom it may concern,
I am a graduate student in my didactic year of physician assistant school, and am currently taking our research methods course. Normally our course was spent the way most ...
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How should a new professor speak to prospective PhD Students?
I am a new professor, now interviewing PhD students. I lack many of the things they expect: other PhD students to talk to, a clear narrative about my lab's work (as funding is still in flux), and an ...
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What should I (a professor) do if a student keeps answering other students' questions before I start explaining?
I have a student who keeps answering other students' questions before I could even start explaining. What should I do in this case? Should I ask them to come meet with me? If so, how should I convey ...
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Studying for an exam with an unprepared student [closed]
I am a student and another student asked me to study together for an exam and I agreed. But when we started studying he didn't know much about the subject, and I had to explain to him how to solve the ...
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how universities treat faculty according to teaching feedback questionaires filled by students [closed]
If faculty get good or bad scores out of teaching feedback questionaires filled by students, what will happen to the faculty? Most people get average scores so nothing happens. Will those who get very ...
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Is there any evidence of a benefit to distributing documents to students vs taking notes?
Suppose you teach a course in which you display slides. Two approaches exists:
distribute the slides (or any document that summarizes the content of the slides);
rely on students to take notes.
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A few students requesting to cancel lectures due to their personal reasons. What should I do?
I give lectures to postgraduate students. The number of students in this batch is very low (< 20). The lectures are foundation lectures for the course. We are only into the basics of the course.
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Do universities in US contain rooms for discussions between students
In India, many universities I know personally does not have any discussion rooms intended for students. There are class rooms(for normal lectures), faculty cabins, seminar halls, administrative ...
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Is it (un)ethical to use your students' research idea without giving them coauthorship (only acknowledgement)?
A tad similar to this question here but also quite different, so here's the current debacle:
In one of my classes I taught, the final project entails students getting in groups and having to run a ...
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Student not giving mid-project report and not coming to defense [closed]
Context:
I am a researcher in a Western European university.
As part of a masters courses in my uni, students have a rather long project to do (each student has its own project). This project is ...
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Asking letter of reccomendation to a Professor I've had this semester
I want to be admitted to a European program that would mean so much to my future carreer. Particularly important documents to be sent with the application are reccomendation letters from professors. I ...
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Balancing empathy and deferring to the syllabus in teaching responsibilities
Questions of similar topics have been asked here for the situation of instructing a course and here and here for the situation of 'no late work' policies. Additional questions about balancing teaching ...
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Professor didn't acknowledge a late hand-in by email. Is it appropriate to follow up?
I missed a class where I was supposed to hand in an assignment.
I arrived at my school at the end of the class, and the teacher had already left, so I sent them immediately by email.
It has been a ...
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How is student feedback dealt with for poorly teaching faculty?
I teach at a teaching university. Research is not a priority. I'm new to the university and am teaching full-time. I believe I've developed a rapport with the current cohort of senior students.
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Student comments from meetings frequently overreacted to by senior 'management' [closed]
I've worked at several UK institutions over the past 10 years and one aspect that consistently raises my eyebrows is the reaction to student-staff liaison meetings* from senior members of the team. ...
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“Quick Papers” - illusion or reality [closed]
Are there actually "quick papers" out there? It took me time to realize that whoever says one should invest time in a project which probably leads to a quick paper is either dishonest or ignorant.
I ...
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How many articles should a PhD candidate in applied linguistics /humanities optimally publish during their PhD? [closed]
I'm just wondering of how many publications /articles a phd student in applied linguistics /humanities should optimally publish during the course of their studies? I'm talking about what would ...
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If I drop from my architecture studies in ETHZ Zurich, can I restart in Manchester?
I think about studying architecture in ETHZ Zurich (Switzerland), but due relatively high student dropout I have certain concerns if I would manage to go through.
Assuming I fail the necessary exams ...
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What are good methods for clarifying student uncertainty? [closed]
A primary task of professors is communication with their students.
Communicating typically involves lecturing, clarifying uncertainties, and receiving feedback. Lecturing happens at fixed times, but ...
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How to respond when insulted by a grad student in a different department?
I'm a lecturer at a small university. In a class I taught last year, one grad student disagreed with his grade and complained as high up in the university as possible. The result was the grade stayed ...
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How do I politely tell a student to take a shower? [duplicate]
There's a student in my class who obviously has some serious body hygeine issues. To preface, this is a fairly packed class -- about 60 students in a small lecture room. The class is about 2 hours ...
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student rate at conferences [closed]
If the student status of a conference participant expires between the registration for the conference and the conference itself, is it typical that the person still pays the student fee (rather than a ...
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At any point during studying, is it okay to just give up?
Is it okay to just say "I know what I know, and I'm not gonna try to learn anymore, because I'm already so exhausted as it is"? I'm asking this because this is basically how I feel right now, and ...
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How to find balance between overconfidence and lacking confidence?
Main Question:
I am a current undergraduate student who just attended my first conference and gave a podium talk on my research from last summer. I tried talking with a researcher who is well-known ...
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Handling Disruptive Student on the Autism Spectrum
I have a student who's on the autistic spectrum. He exhibits several disruptive behaviors in class, such as
Inability to moderate his volume/interjections: he will shout out questions and comments ...
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What to say to a student who has failed?
A student has failed a course I just taught. Grades were announced yesterday. This student sent me a very long heartbreaking email about how this means she will be kicked out of her program, how she ...
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Can an F-1 student study abroad? [closed]
Can a (graduate) student studying in the US on an F-1 visa study abroad for a semester or a year, maintaning their F-1 status in the US university? (Assuming there is no formal exhcange agreement ...
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Is gift authorship for PhD advisors rampant in academia? [duplicate]
I have had an issue with my PhD advisor where they were essentially attempting to coerce me into inappropriately adding them as a co-author on a paper that they had no part in. They agreed that they ...
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Is it ethical to tell my teaching assistant that I like him?
I, a twenty-year-old female, have come to admire the graduate teaching assistant for my summer course quite strongly. I'm extremely interested in what he has to say, I always pay attention, never use ...
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Spending time on problem solving [closed]
As a freshman student going into a Community College pursuing Engineering, I deal with a lot of STEM-based subjects such as Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Statics, and etc. Currently my problem is ...
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For a first year math PhD student, should the student read their graduate level math textbooks page by page, sentence by sentence? [closed]
Question is: For a first year math PhD student, should the student read their graduate level math textbooks page by page, sentence by sentence?
I often hear professors say that that's a bad idea, and ...
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A professor who is less knowledgeable in certain subjects than a student [closed]
What is a proper way of showing academic knowledge with assignments when your professors and or school is not on par with a particular students knowledge, so-to-speak?
A student is extremely smart ...
