...predictably whiny, juvenile, insipid, and immature. Others are self-revealing in ways students might not even intend. Still others are surprisingly perceptive and on the mark, with very practical advice for faculty. Nearly all can teach us teachers something about the mentality and attitudes of this generation of students, which, not so incidentally, might be very different from when we were college undergraduates. They can be broken down into some half dozen broad areas: 1) how teachers test; 2) time management by both students and teachers; 3) the style in which teachers present their classes and course material; 4) explaining course requirements; 5) how teachers connect or fail to connect with their students; and 6) miscellaneous observations and suggestions.

How Teachers Test:

To no one's surprise, this is an area of major concern. Students want teachers to be as precise as possible in what they test on. Ideally, for some students, nothing would be on test that hadn't been covered first in class. Students want more reviews before exams and detailed study guides. Some would like exams to come only from study guides, not from the reading. Also, they want teachers to test in small chunks only, please. Some students object to being asked to read anything that will not be on the test later. Students are also put off by "too much" outside reading that they are then tested on. A common complaint is, "There's too much to...

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