Modern Student Behavior and Its Impact on College Teaching

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Modern Student Behavior and Its Impact on College
Teaching

• Dr. Bill Stobart, Pittsburg State University
• Dr. John Oppliger, Pittsburg State University

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• Many college professors feel student behavior has
  changed over the past decades.

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Student Violence

• There have been several instances of high profile
  violence on todays campuses.

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Student Violence

• In reviewing my career in higher education, I
  know that two of my former students are in
  prison.
• One for murder and one for manslaughter.

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One of our students was dismissed from school for
having a gun and shells in his car.
Im the scariest dude you will ever meet!
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• The impact of guns on campus has been an issue of
  risk management and legal liability.
• Our university is posting no weapons signs
  around campus.

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• Due to the increased chance of violence, our
  department chair has sent the faculty a memo
  instructing each faculty member to take a cell
  phone to class in case of an emergency.

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• Our department now posts the campus police
  telephone number in every classroom and
  throughout the hallways of our building.

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• Our campus police department has also installed
  emergency phones around campus.

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• Recently, shots were fired on the campus of
  Northwest Missouri State University.
• The campus sounded the warning shooter on
  campus over their speaker system.

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Grade Inflation

• Do you feel the threat of violence has an impact
  on many college professors grading and has
  become a leading factor of grade inflation?
• Does the threat of violence impact our behavior
  around students?

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Student Behavior and Technology

• Technological advances appear to have changed
  student behavior.

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• According to our student affairs staff, students
  are using our student center less.

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• When students do use the student union, they seek
  technology.
• Computer access is demanded more in our student
  union than in the library.

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• Do you think that computers will be a must have
  in future gyms, physical education buildings, and
  recreation centers?

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Students are expecting more information exchanges
via technology.

• Email
• Blackboard
• Angel

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Student Behavior and Technology

• Impact of modern technology may alleviate the
  student from taking notes in class.
• It may impact the whole educational process via
  on-line courses.

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Socialization

• One of our staff member feels that due to the use
  of cell phones, students are not talking to
  fellow classmates.
• They call other friends between classes.

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• Has the modern students use of cell phones
  impacted rules and regulations in your classroom?

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Student abilities

• Some college professors do not feel modern
  students are being properly prepared in
  elementary and secondary education.

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• Colleges are doing almost everything they can to
  allow each student to have the opportunity to
  succeed and graduate.

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• With easy admission requirements and high
  retention rates, are we graduating students who
  shouldnt be in college in the first place?
• Are we lowering our standards for the modern
  student?

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Student evaluations

• As college professors, if we set high standards
  in our classrooms, will todays student give us
  low student evaluations which may effect
  promotion and tenure and merit pay?

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A students email

• Yes this is richard and I was asking if you had
  found out any thing about added more coures so I
  would be a jr and right know im a sopmore and I
  did knowwhat you had found out and if you sounf
  write me back and tell me if im jr or sopmore
  staties so if you could write me back before 430
  that would good think you richard

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Student attitudes

• I have also had a student respond to an essay
  question with the following response
• To muck work

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Student attitudes

• The millennial student has changed in many ways.

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Plagiarism

• Computers and the internet have made it very easy
  to plagiarize papers and other work.

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Student honesty

• Since some students find it easy to plagiarize
  papers with the aid of a computer and the
  internet, some college professors may assign
  fewer writing assignments.

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Impact on college teaching

• in addition to fewer papers, some professors are
  not giving a final, giving a take home final, or
  giving an on-line final. This gives college
  professors an extra week of time to work on
  whatever they choose.

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Student cheating

• Do you feel the modern student is cheating more
  or less than students five, ten, or twenty years
  ago?

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Attitude of students

• It is my opinion that students do not attend
  class as seriously as in previous years.

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Attitude of students

• A paraphrased email from one of my students that
  scored 224 points out of 500 and failed the
  class. He never inquired about any test scores in
  class.
• I know Im not an A student but an F. Were
  going to have to figure this out.

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Attitude of students

• Many students are electing to take more than four
  years to graduate.

• Possible factors contributing to more years of
  college
• Easier financial aid
• Parents supporting five years of college
• More students that work full-time

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Quote from a previous colleague

• High grades relieve a college professor of 70
  of their problems.