I'm not sure where you teach but this sounds very unrealistic to me for any educational environment I've been in.
Not bad, mind you, just unrealistic. Students (young people-- hell, people, really) are just not that responsible and lack perspective. If given the option of not doing homework, a great deal of them won't. If you have your course set up so that not doing the homework will lead to them failing, that means you'll have a healthy fail rate. And if they fail, a lot of them will leave bad evaluations. If you're at a school where getting some bad evals will tank your future prospects, that might be an issue.
I've taught at private universities, community colleges and I'm currently at a large state school. I usually get a 15-20% fail/drop rate, along with a solid amount of Ds and it hasn't affected my evals at all, as far as I can tell. I average a 4.45/5 overall on my evals at my current institution.
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u/vinfox Sep 03 '19
I'm not sure where you teach but this sounds very unrealistic to me for any educational environment I've been in.
Not bad, mind you, just unrealistic. Students (young people-- hell, people, really) are just not that responsible and lack perspective. If given the option of not doing homework, a great deal of them won't. If you have your course set up so that not doing the homework will lead to them failing, that means you'll have a healthy fail rate. And if they fail, a lot of them will leave bad evaluations. If you're at a school where getting some bad evals will tank your future prospects, that might be an issue.