Night and Day class: Whose fault?

I think there are various reasons to it. Daytime students are usually full-time students. It's their job so to speak to attend classes. Yet, even some of them cut classes for fun or miss classes due to sickness. You might not notice it, because daytime classes are usually fuller. Nighttime students are rarely full-time students. If they are, they are probably of that variety who prefer nighttime classes because they like to sleep long and spent half of their day doing that. With that kind of attitude you naturally will get more of the cutting the class for fun type of students. However, the majority of nighttime students have daytime jobs. Some overestimate the demands of working and studying and how long it takes to get from work to class. Some have demanding bosses who don't care that a class is scheduled that day and just makes your student work overtime anyway. Some students even know in advance that they won't make it to all classes. They take the exam days off, just to be sure they can be there on those days. Add to that the usual amount of sick students...And of course you notice absences more during those classes as they tend to be much smaller. It's rarely the teacher to blame nor really the student but more the circumstances. Don't blame yourself. If you easily fill the daytime classes, you seem to be a good teacher. If you can't get students to come to those, then it's a sign you are a bad teacher. How could you increase attendance? If that's allowed in your place, have pop-quizzes for extra points, or even part of the required points they need to get in order to pass the class. Some professors put questions in their exams that only students can answer who regularly attended the class, something that's not found in the book(s) assigned for the class. Of course they could always get somebody else's notes...

I attend night classes full-time because I work full-time during the day, all of my classes are very well attended. I think it all depends on the student's desire to learn everything they can, and how they react with the instructor. I personally hate missing a class. I am tired at the end of the day, and miss hanging out with my family as much as I used to, but I know that if I miss a class I can't recapture what was discussed/learned, so I make it a point not to miss unless it absolutely can't be helped. Maybe you can try incorporating an incentive for attendance. Make it 10 or 15% of their overall grade. Just tell the students that even if they only get 80% on tests and assignments they might still get an A if they attend every class. That might encourage them to attend, and they'd definitely learn more if they do. That is what my English Comp teacher did and people rarely missed class, even those with As anyway.

I don't think there is anything wrong with them. I also don't think it is anyone's fault that night attendance is lessened. In night classes you are probably mostly dealing with students who work during the day and can only go to school at night. Full time students, or students who are full time college students, rather tha full time workers prefer to go to school during the day because that is pretty much their job for the time being, and they need the evenings, to rest up and do homework. When I went to college I never felt comfortable taking the night classes because that would mean I would have to walk in the dark after classes let out, and that was always kind of scary. During the day I was not afraid. So I can imagine you get less female students at night for that reason as well.

Hi frnds, I think that night class and day class is not a fault one to teach us a students. Both are better classess to listen the students.But maximum time students wants in the day time classess to listen for the students.In night time class they will not listen and don't put that much concentration in night class for students. If the syllabus not compeleted means we can take in the night class for the students.

It is the students fault part time or not they picked that class knowing the time. If i thought i couldn't make the night class i register for then i wouldn't register in the first place. I even delay taking a certain class if it conflicts with my schedule because i AM paying for the class so i intend to attend it and get the most of it. The way i think of it is whether or not i attend the professor still gets paid and its not his/her fault if i dont understand the covered material if i was never there. Some of my professors used to deduct points for poor attendance and that would reflect in the grades. The only way not to loose points was if the professor was told in advance or if the professor was told the next class why a student didn't attend.

I'm a day studently mainyl. I attend a university in the US. I've had to take some night class. I think some night students don't take it seriously. They've already got a job usually. So for them it's a promotion usually for taking a class while a day student passing a job can mean getting job. So, day students tend to take it more seriously.

Yes, it's very depressing to have low attendance. But it doesn't mean anything. I mean maybe it's because it's getting cold and people don't like to go out at night, or it's because they are too busy for getting a job in this time. It have no relevance with your teaching ability. Don't bother that, just keep teaching. Happy Mylotting!