Instructors are encouraged to incorporate a certain percentage of their course grade based on students' participation in a certain number of study skills info-sessions.

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This link takes you to an excellent video about working with Deep and Surface Learners. It's about 20 minutes long.

A letter grade is issued to each student at the end of the course. Throughout the course you will have opportunities to check and see approximately where you are at in your achievement by meeting with me during office hours. I recognize that each student has different reasons for taking the course; some have the goal just to pass the course with the minimum grades for advancement, others want to get as high a mark as they can with a moderate amount of effort, and others want to get a high mark and learn as much as they can. This is your education, and I respect whatever your personal goals for achievement are. Sometimes I have noticed that students have high goals for achievement in a course, but they have made assumptions about what is expected, or put a lot of extra effort into an area, which didn't necessarily give them higher marks.

This is a recent posting to the Tomorrow's Professor mailing list, sent every few days by Rick Reis at Stanford University. This one deals with Learning in Small Groups.