In the movie, Declining by Degree, we take a look at the issues in college. Students face the biggest issues while trying to make the jump from high school to college because they aren’t well prepared for all the work and styles of teaching. About one half of the students who attend a college or university leave without graduating and one in four students who attend college don’t make it to their sophomore year. Lectures have been proven to be one of the least effective teaching methods for students and that could be one of the biggest reasons why so many students don’t graduate. Society assumes that while a student is in college that they receive a useful and meaningful education to better them for the real world. A lot of teachers are more worried about the passing percentage of the class than actually teaching the information for the students’ benefit. Many students are also guilty because they are finding easy ways out of doing their homework with a purpose by doing as little as possible and still getting by.
Students are being hurt by all of these issues and are not getting prepared for their future. Teachers aren’t helping students like they should and lectures are a big cause of this. Many students zone out and cannot focus on the information being given when they have to sit through a lecture. But most professors don’t know how else to teach their students when the classroom sizes exceed a few hundred students. When students find the easiest and least time consuming way to complete their work, they do not help themselves. While students take classes that aren’t of any value to them other than a few required credits, they are developing poor habits for studying and not learning how to do work correctly. This is greatly hurting students for the real world especially when half of them don’t even graduate from college after attending.
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