university students should be required to attend class. ㅠ.ㅠ |
It is often said that university students should be evaluated according to the final test or paper, except for class attendance. Some people agree with the statement because class attendance cannot ensure academic achievement. However, I strongly support the idea of class attendance mandatory for two reasons. First, attending class mandatory makes students responsible with the promise. In addition, it helps students keep up with lectures. To begin with, through the class attendance compulsory, students can realize the value of promise. In today's society, with the advent of cell phone, people become generous about being late or calling off the promise. In fact, since anyone can send their message by using cell phone, they can change their promise in advance. However, this tendency makes people neglect the importance of promise. In this regard, attending classes mandatory make students observe their promise well. To be specific, through this attendance policy makes students not absent and late for class, and thus it helps students establish a good habit to observe promise. Especially, after graduation, this good habit is helpful to their social life. Therefore, class attendance is one of essential factor to evaluate students. Moreover, the attendance obligatory makes students more involved in the class. In general, the more time students have to learn, the more knowledge and information they gain. In this sense, class attendance plays a crucial role in catching up the course. To illustrate, if a students absents for his or her class, he have to spend more time to make up for missed part. Of course, at the first time, he or she can keep up with lecture. But, in the case of repetitive absent, a student might be likely to drop the course. According to the Ministry of Education of Korea in 2005, the school which required students to attend classes showed a three times lower rate of withdrawal than the school which did not concern the attendance. In conclusion, the university should require all students to attend classes because in provides students with the importance of appointment and it allows students to more concentrate on the classes. Therefore, it is obvious that class attendance mandatory is beneficial to students. |