There was much agreement that the act of taking notes in class contributes to the learning process and should not be discouraged. However, there is also a disadvantage to writing frantically and not listening, so some compromise seems advisable. Some hand out partial notes, outlines, or graphs with space for notes below so that students have some but not all the information they need. One instructor occasionally puts her notes on the class Web page the day after the lecture simply as a model. However, she cautions that when students skip class and try to study for the test using notes downloaded from the Web, their scores tend to be much lower than those of students who came to class and took their own notes.
Many instructors put outlines of their notes on the Web page.
This encourages students to come to class, but it makes them more selective in their notetaking since they know what key concepts are. Attendance This topic has been broached at virtually every lunch discussion. Questions focused on whether or not attempts to enforce attendance have any effect and various methods used to encourage it. Students sign in at the door. Instructor gives regular quizzes.