Expectations Professors Have of Students

• Ability to state what you have read or heard in lecture into your own words
• Ability to effectively read college-level textbooks
• Ability to differentiate between observations and inferences
• Understanding and use of operational definitions
• Ability to know when information given during a lecture is not enough to fully understand the concepts being taught
• Ability to find additional information needed
• Ability to reason through analogies
• Understanding specialized vocabulary used in different professions and the need to begin using those words
• Ability to think, form judgments and draw conclusions
• Ability to explain or provide a basis for an unproved idea
• Ability to argue or discuss ideas and back them up with reasons
• Ability to listen with an open mind and not make judgments until the end of the lecture
• A willingness to learn