How to ensure that students do the reading before class

 

1. Blackboard quiz before class

2. group assignment

3. quiz

4. study questions, handed in & graded

5. reading reaction papers, handed in & graded

6. have student turn in their reading notes – they keep a photocopy – then you hand their reading notes back to them during the test

7. have students write a journal recording their reading reactions, then periodically (randomly) have them turned in & graded

8. the Blackboard quiz is a ticket to class – they must take the quiz first – and this is carefully explained to them beforehand