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Howard, Jay R. – Teaching Sociology, 2004
In the process of collecting assessment data in the author's introductory sociology course, he made a startling and disappointing discovery. For the most part, students simply were not bothering to read the basics version of the introductory survey textbook that he assigned. This discovery presented him with two related challenges. First, he had…
Descriptors: Sociology, Introductory Courses, Undergraduate Students, Data Collection