Re: Time to retire?

["RAUBER, JOEL" <JOEL_RAUBER@SDSTATE.EDU>]

Rick,
> I
> suspect there are two thing going on here.  One, they often
> do choose source
> material that is too technical for their level...again
> despite guidance on
> this point.  Two, is the more serious problem which we've discussed
> often--lack of reading skills.  Some of it may be
> laziness--not actually
> reading the material...a habit which I fear they pick up
> before College due
> to the types of assignments and tests they've been given.
> That could be
> fixed.  I'm more worried that they really are not learning to read for
> comprehension--at least not that well.  Of course, the best
> students do read
> well, and consequently do well, but the reading skills of the
> middle of the
> pack have fallen.

There may be a third related thing going on.  Their collective experience
may be that there is a lack of consequence for not having read for meaning
and comprehension.

This allows for a segue into the grade inflation thread.

Joel R