“Never tell me the odds”: why scaring students into engaging probably won’t work (without a bit of a tweak)

I am currently looking at our own institution’s approach to attendance/ engagement monitoring and then the associated follow up actions. One of the approaches I hear from frustrated colleagues and senior managers is that we just need to tell students about the association between attendance and success. Whether done by scaring them with the risk …

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