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Improving SI Attendance

  • Provide handouts. Students come to SI if they believe they are getting something. With handouts, they have visual evidence they are getting something. Handouts should be a bright color to attract students. When students ask for handouts, politely explain the handouts will be available in SI sessions.

  • Sit in different locations in the class to be visible and to get acquainted with more students.

  • Greet students in the class who come to SI. Knowing the leader makes all the students feel SI students have an “in.”

  • Make an announcement before each test that study sessions will be held in SI.

  • Construct practice tests, obtain the approval of the professor, and announce that practice tests, approved by the professor, will be reviewed in SI. (When the students know the practice tests are approved, they realize the professor had input which makes the tests seem more authentic.)

  • Ask the professor to make an announcement about SI. It gives authenticity to the session.

  • Make sure SI is offered to everyone. If students view SI as being remedial, they may not attend.

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