...The high cost of college, student’s work ethic, and their lack of preparedness are all factors that are causing American students to have higher drop our rates compared to other countries. A study done at Harvard University showed that nearly half of America’s college students drop out before receiving a degree. The reason for these students to be dropping has to do with failing. They are not able to keep their grades high enough to even receive a degree. As stated earlier there are many factors that contribute to a student’s success in college. One of the reasons why students fail college is due to the fact that many teenagers are simply not ready for the rigorous schedule that comes with being a college student. It’s a major transition from high school to college. Students leave there home, high school friends, and are taken out of their comfort zone. They are forced to balance their schoolwork and other activities on top of making major decisions that will affect their career. In some cases, students just aren’t mentally, emotionally or academically ready to succeed in...
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...My topic is a topic I am sure runs through the head of at least ninety percent of all college students. Why should all college majors require you to take college algebra? The requirements for your basic college classes include college algebra. Without the proper ACT score you will be taking remedial algebra before you reach college algebra. For those who don’t know college algebra is a very difficult class. About fifty eight percent of all students who take it fail it at least once. It is especially difficult for the people who fall under the same class as me that struggle with math even before college algebra. The reason I chose this topic is because I know how extremely challenging this class is and I believe it is unfair for colleges to...
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...REASONS WHY STUDENTS FAIL IN THEIR DEPARTMENTALIZED EXAMINATION RINA JOY M. BAUTISTA ALLYSSA C. DE CASTRO RIZZA FATIMA D. LUNA JAENE MENDOZA KRISSIA TALOSIG COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE AND FINE ARTS General Engineering Department Batangas State University Batangas City October 2014 REASONS WHY STUDENTS FAIL IN THEIR DEPARTMENTALIZED EXAMINATION A Research Paper Submitted to the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Fine Arts General Engineering Department Batangas State University Batangas City In Partial Fulfillment of the requirements In English 106- Technical Communication General Engineering Department by RINA JOY M. BAUTISTA ALLYSSA C. DE CASTRO RIZZA FATIMA D. LUNA JAENEN MENDOZA KRISSIA TALOSIG 1st Semester SY 2014-20015 APPROVAL SHEET This research paper entitled “ Reasons why Students Fail in their Departmentalized Examination” prepared and submitted by Rina Joy M. Bautista, Allyssa C. De Castro, Rizza Fatima D. Luna, Krissia Talosig, and Jaenen Mendoza and in partial fulfillment of the requirements in General Engineering for the subject English 106-Technical Communication is hereby with a grade of _____________. AILEEN CAMERING-DELA GUARDIA Research Instructor ______________________ ______________________ Panel Member Panel Member Accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for General Engineering ENGR.EUFEMIA A. AMUL Associate Dean, GE Department _________________ Date RESEARCHERS PROFILE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would...
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...Students are Our Future Congratulations to the Senior Class of Taft High School, 2014. I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity to come and be your guest speaker. The speech that I am going to give today will influence your life in many ways. You have the choice of taking the following statements for granted or listening and follow these simple steps that I am going to give to you today. There are many ways students entering Pierce College will succeed in their academic performances and many ways to fail as well. I am going to discuss with you the process of failing at Pierce College and not being able to get to the place you are all expecting. A bad student behavior consists of poor habits, traits, characteristics, and academic performance. There can be many reasons to failing in college. One reason is that college is simply a big change from high school. Students who were once good students may find their grades slipping in college. There are many reasons why some students don’t thrive at a university and begin failing their courses and in my opinion these are the major reasons why they fail. Most of students do have a lower expectation of the workload that will eventually stress them out. I’m going to give you direction and guide to the way not to behave before class, during class and after class. Make sure you do not do any of the followings and prepare yourself for a good start in Pierce College. Before coming to class, students tend to not review their...
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...Table of Contents 1 The Ethical Issue – Whether to Pay NCAA Football Student-Athletes 3 1.1 The Case For Maintaining the Current System - Not Paying NCAA Football Student-Athletes 4 1.2 The Case For Paying NCAA Football Student-Athletes 6 1.3 Conclusion 11 1.4 References 13 The Ethical Issue – Whether to Pay NCAA Football Student-Athletes Top college football programs make hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues each year, all without having to pay the people who actually play the game. Is it ethical for colleges to not pay their football stars for playing their hearts out on the field, building popular branding images for themselves and their school, and for the collective big-money earnings and prestige that often comes to their schools? Or is indirect payment to these players in the form of a free undergraduate education and college degree through an athletic scholarship sufficient enough? In the 2012 NFL season, 1,947 players played in at least one game. Of those, 62% attended college at one of the five “power conferences” in the U.S., and only one of those players did not attend college at all.[i] Donald Remy, the NCAA chief legal officer has said, “The NCAA’s rules do not force athletes who wish to be professionals to enroll in school,”[ii] yet premier NCAA schools clearly offer the best path to fulfilling these hopeful football players’ dreams. Nevertheless, despite the more opportunistic path of attending a Division...
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...College offers students many fields of study, after they become college student, they can choose what they want to learn. But colleges requires students to select classes not inside of their major fields but also outside. As a college student, I want to be a nurse in future. I remember when I went for my advising, the adviser told me I had to do my pre requisite pass my TEASE test before I can enter the nursing program. I asked her the reason why I had to take courses that do not pertain to the course am majoring in. I was confused about what she was trying to tell me. The adviser then explained the reason why I had to do all this course. Some of the reason she said was for student to be able to express them self-better, for them to be creative and lastly to be a divergent and critical thinker. I later went to a seminar that explained the reason why student should take course that is not my major. I strongly agree that college should require every students to take classes that is not that is not the major and also should be graded pass/fail. This is the reason why; first of all, studying other courses gives students chances to make friends with other students in different major fields. In my field my faculty requires every students to take at least two years of pre requisites. I choose to study nursing, am making a lot of good friends while during my pre requisites I meet students from all fields which gives my some ideas on other fields. The second to support my claim is...
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...youth and causing history to change slowly if at all. Affirmative action has good intentions and is very much needed in today's world however it sometimes fails doing what it was created to do. The extra points given to the students of color is seen to be unfair, fails at creating an economically diverse environment, and sets low expectations for students of color (But Not At This Cost). The does not believe the advantages are fair at all "For example, a perfect SAT score is worth 12 points. Being black gets you 20 points. Is there anyone who can look at those two numbers and think they are fair?" (Paragraph 2) also affirmative action fails to help those in need "They often benefit the children of the middle- and upper-class black American who have been conditioned to feel they are owed something" (Paragraph 4). The arguments given as to why this person does not support affirmative action fail to support his or her studies with actual proof from previous studies. Based on a study conducted by the College Board American Americans and Hispanics have the lowest income of all races in America. Lower earning families tend to live in affordable areas, that lack quality housing, schools, police enforcement. When a school fails to teach possible SAT skills or questions yet the child maintains a good GPA and is a well rounded student why hold it against them? With the growing rate of immigration it is common for a child to move during the most vital years in their education. Some children...
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...Do you know why students drop out of school? Nowdays students usually drop out of school, to get a career. More than before job seekers are looking for people who have finished high school (at least). The fact that students drop out of school is caused for different reasons. There are three main causes why students drop out of school: they can't afford tuition, they prefer to work, and they fail the course. One reason which students decide to drop out of school is because they don't have enough money to afford it. There are a lot of families that can't pay a college tuition even since high school, these families earn the minimum salary. In other circumstances are only able to pay college for one member of the family. Public universities are the cheapest universities, but not all students have a chance to get into the university, thus they cannot study. When students get a good job, they prefer to attend their job, and for this reason they drop out of school. Usually they get a job while they are studying too. After a while, they find out that they prefer working instead of studying. It is difficult for them to leave their job because they need money. Sometimes they find out that they will have a better future by working than studying. Another reason why students don't finish highschool is because they fail the course. Sometimes students have problems with some subjects, especially. Mathematics and English, so they fail the subject and as a consequence the whole course...
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...feels that students should not be forced to learn something and be graded on it. This makes students hate learning more than ever. Schools should think for the benefit of the students. I agree with Farber's perspective that the grading system being used needs to go. In Farber's essay, he diminishes the grading system, because it does not grade students effectively. In Farber's essay, he talks about how grades have turned students into slaves. Farber wrote, “Twelve years of slave work have very likely convinced us...
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...RETAKES: GOOD OR BAD? 7 RETAKES: GOOD OR BAD? Retakes: Good or bad? 800629413 Arrowhead Park Early College High School Retakes: Good or Bad? Testing has been a way to determine if the student has mastered the subject and is ready to move on to the next step, if possible. For such reason, taking quizzes, midterms, and exams can be really stressful for students, as it is well known that the future practically depends on such assessment. Over the past of the years there has been some controversy towards retakes in the sense of is it really beneficial for students or does it have the totally opposite result. Julie Scagell, a mother of a 12 year old, in her article ?More schools are offering test retakes. But does that...
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...Brianna McCowell High School Teachers vs. College Professors Many people assume that a teacher is a teacher regardless of whether they teach high school or college, but in reality there are many differences between the two. Although high school’s purpose is to prepare a student for college, a high school teacher is much more lenient and will push you to get things done. As many college students will tell you, a professor will not wait on you to do work and will not bend the rules for you. Regardless of what some may think, there are many differences between educators who teach at different levels. The differences range from different grading styles and policies to due dates and deadlines. High school teachers let their students get away with so much stuff. The students can get away with skipping, texting in class, cheating, and numerous other “illegal” school activities. Most high school students do not apply themselves when it comes to doing school work and projects. So they just sit there in class and try to be the class clown. They know that their punishment for disrupting the class is not going to be severe. In high school, the punishment will not be as strict as a college professor would administer. If a student in high school has a cell phone out and is caught, the phone is taken away and then later given back. The high school student obviously gets a less severe punishment and only looses a cell phone for a few hours. To get out of anything in high school...
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...People Going to College” Charles Murray’s essay proposes that American colleges are being flooded with individuals who are either unprepared for higher education or who are simply forced into attending college and can’t succeed because of the lack of certain innate abilities. Murray’s essay goes on to take issue with the idea that the pursuit of a traditional college education is somehow strategically creating a separation of the American class system. While Murray makes many salient points with regards to America’s obsession with college education as a standard into a class of the intellectual elite, the essay fails to take into consideration the various motivators that can lead to student success, despite where that student might be on Murray’s ability ladder (Murray Paragraph 13). This essay seeks to analyze Murray’s claims about why the pursuit of a traditional, four-year college education can do more harm than good when it comes to defining success for the individual learner. Rhetorical Analysis The main thesis of Murray’s essay is that the unrealistic pursuit of a college degree, propagates to children at an early age and does more harm than good. Murray claims that many students do not have the ability needed to enjoy and complete a four-year college education (PARAGRAPH 13). Murray further supports his thesis with his reasoning that more people are going to college because they are indoctrinated, regardless of their skilled ability, to pursue college as a natural progression...
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...2014 You get what you pay for, right? College is an exciting, yet stressful time of our lives. The biggest problem we face about college is how much will it cost? Everyone wants to attend certain schools, but money always gets in the way. This causes students to reach towards community colleges, trade schools, and online universities. These schools offer the same degrees faster, but at a higher cost. Kevin Carey, director of the Education Policy Program, claims for-profit colleges have too many issues within and need to be reformed for the better. He points out that for-profit schools are not all that bad. These universities offer open doors for students turned down by traditional and private colleges who seek higher education. Christopher Beha complicates Carey’s argument that for-profit schools are a form of “higher education” by using providing evidence of how classes are at these universities when he posed as a student himself. Jane Clark extends Carey’s claim that these colleges are “money-making machines” by supporting a look at how for-profits make their money. Lastly, an article by Melissa Korn from the Wall Street Journal clarifies Carey’s assertion of how for-profit graduates are not getting jobs because employers are turning down their “low-value” degrees. College is a time for many students to gain a higher form of education. Carey argues that classes taken at for-profit colleges offer are equivalent to traditional colleges. Christopher Beha, editor of Harper’s...
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...Thomas 1 Courtney Thomas Dr. Joe Argent ENG 111-K62 Being A College Student There are tons of things that are good and bad about being a College student. For instance, College students either succeed or fail, they either graduate or drop out. The drop out rates are very high, many have no choice to drop out, due to many reasons. The chances of someone even going to College is very slim these days; most don’t consider it. Not considering College is most likely because of the cost, not because we don’t want to further our education. Being a College student can be an overwhelming process, stress will come and stay, until it’s all over. As if being a College student isn’t hard enough, we also have everyday struggles too. Like kids, families, financial issues, working, or even no time, this can make your schoolwork ten times harder. When in College many go through many stages during their College days. Feeling excited, alone, emotional and overwhelmed, sometimes even failure. Many feel excited to know that they are on the right track of attempting their goals and exceeding in getting a degree. Many may feel alone due to allowing school become there every moment, no time for friends, family or even a significant other. School is like a full time job; you have to be all in and put in the time and effort. Feeling overwhelmed is definitely not uncommon when in College, due to high stress levels and so much going on at one time and not being able to stay ahead when you try so...
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...two definitions are looked at together, one can easily conclude what personal responsibility means. Personal responsibility is, as the definition says, being able to answer for and hold oneself accountable for their actions. As a college career starts, importance lies in a person being able to fulfill obligations. While in college, a student’s obligations are their courses. In order to have a successful college career, each individual student must realize that they solely determine the outcome of their schooling. While there are many outside interferences that can affect college success, personal responsibility is the biggest factor in college success. Personal responsibility is the biggest factor in a person’s college success. If one never holds themselves accountable for their success, they will never meet the goals they have set for their life. Individuals must be responsible for meeting the goals they set in their life. There is nobody else who is going to achieve the dreams of a diploma and a good job for them. Although accepting personal responsibility is important, remembering that there is a balance to personal responsibility is equally important. According to Garraway (1997), (to accept personal responsibility, we need to learn how to fail successfully. Don't go too far the other direction, however, and accept too much responsibility for...
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