Characteristics of My Best Students

These traits set my star pupils apart.
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Characteristics of My Best Students
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Over the last two years of professing, I have certainly noticed traits that separate the good students from the bad ones. In this post, I'll examine three characteristics of my very best students.

Participation

Being the curious sort, I started with a simple question: What's the relationship between class participation and final grade?

By way of background, five percent of students' grades in both of my courses stem from class participation. Yeah, it's a subjective measure, but I try to mitigate that with rubrics in my syllabi.

I then exported the grades from Blackboard to Excel for all of my 2017 classes. A simple scatterplot in Tableau reveals what I long suspected: students who show up and participate in class generally do much better than students who do not.

Here are the results:

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