Results of
Informal Survey
Re: Student attention to syllabus items
Conducted at the College of San Mateo
Sample: about a dozen students, chosen at random
Note the last four lines.
Q: Excuse me, do you have a minute to answer some
questions?
A: Yes. (None refused; all had nothing else to do just
then, bless their hearts!)
Q: When the semester began, did the professor give you a
syllabus?
A: Yes. (100%)
Q: Did the syllabus have the course’s name? Meeting place?
Meeting times?
A: Yes. (100%)
Q: Did the syllabus have the professor’s name? Office
hours? Contact information?
A: Yes. (100%)
Q: Did the syllabus have tutoring center location and
hours?
A: Yes. (100%)
Q: Did the syllabus have the course’s grading system?
A: Yes. (100%)
Q: Did the syllabus list the course’s topics?
A: Yes. (100%)
Q: Did you read the entire syllabus?
A: Yes / Most of it / Some of it / I skimmed it. (Much
variation, qualification and evasion.)
Q: Did you read everything on the syllabus that mattered to
you?
A: Yes. (100%)
Q: Did you read the SLO?
A: The what? (100%)
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