How do professors feel about students who skip lectures?

InquilineKea
Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:28:44 +0000

What does the experience seem to be for you all?

From mine - it seems that math/science professors are more tolerant towards students who skip lectures regularly - after all - it’s well known in math/science that you learn by doing problems, not by listening to the instructor. On the other hand though - a lot of them are rather poor instructors - and it’s possible that some of them could become unusually defensive if students do not value their teaching.

That being said though - perhaps it is the case that professors who spend little effort on preparing lectures are more tolerant towards students who skip than professors who spend a lot of effort on such lectures.

On the other hand, Humanities and Social Science professors are not particularly tolerant towards students who skip lectures.