{"id":556,"date":"2010-12-21T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/professor-obvious-on-participation-grades\/"},"modified":"2010-12-21T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:39:00","slug":"professor-obvious-on-participation-grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/professor-obvious-on-participation-grades.html","title":{"rendered":"Professor Obvious on Participation Grades"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Thanks to everyone who has chimed in on my post on participation grades. In addition to discussion here, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonstaples.com\/blog\/2010\/participation-grades-1118?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+jasonstaples+(jasonstaples.com)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jason Staples has shared some thoughts<\/a> on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the helpful thoughts about the subject, I was also struck by how many people commented, which suggests that the issue of participation, and how to encourage and reward it, are subjects that other professors wrestle with.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4688375370043965438?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who has chimed in on my post on participation grades. 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