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Oct 13, 2022 20:48
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What do teachers write in an attendance sheet ...?

English Social Sciences Education / Pedagogy Attendance sheets
What do teachers write in an attendance sheet when all students don't attend a session? And do UK and USA teachers use the same phrase/expression, please?

Please, bear in mind it's a monolingual question, and it would be great to know answers from the aforementioned countries, and even other native English countries.

Thank you very much in adavance :).
Responses
5 +1 All students present/ no students absent etc.
5 No answer
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Discussion

Darius Saczuk Dec 5, 2022:
This is definitely a non-PRO question.
FPC Oct 19, 2022:
Your question could be interpreted in two different ways. One, grammatically undisputable, way is that no student attended, but that's not how most speakers of English would construe it. What people normally understand by "All ... NOT" is that some did and the rest didn't.
Now to answer your question anyway I don't think there's a standard answer either way.
The most common way to indicate attendance, which covers all situations, is with a scale going from 0 to N (total number of students enrolled). So if x students attended, the teacher would write ATTENDANCE: x (and of course it can be x=0 in case no-one showed up)
philgoddard Oct 13, 2022:
Darius So you did. Sorry! I don't really understand this question either. You can't generalise - every school and every teacher is different.
Yassine El Bouknify (asker) Oct 13, 2022:
Thanks, Philgoddard Is it a common phrase in your country, please? Or your country's education system doesn't work like the Moroccan one? It's used in our country to save time, anyway :). To make it clearer, I'm searching for a phrase that is used either in the UK or the USA, but I'm not sure if there is any common one.
philgoddard Oct 13, 2022:
"A phrase that indicates that all students were absent."

How about "all students were absent"?
Yassine El Bouknify (asker) Oct 13, 2022:
In Morocco, we either write the assigned numbers (I.e: 1, 2, 3, etc) to students who were absent, or write the numbers of students who attended the session, especially when students who were present are less than students who were absent, and when all students are absent, we don't write down those who were absent, we only write a phrase that indicates that all students were absent. I think there are educational differences among many, if not, all countries.
Christopher Schröder Oct 13, 2022:
I don’t understand what you’re asking. Absent and present are the only two options.

Responses

+1
10 hrs
Selected

All students present/ no students absent etc.

Or all/some/ no students absent

Present/ absent used in all versions of English I know. And I was a teacher for years.

The attendance sheets usually just have narrow columns for each day with enough space for a tick ( present) or x or abs for absent.
And a note can be made at the bottom if needed

All students are/ were present etc.

Students absent: ....

Also note that younger children often called "pupils'" rather than "students"

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Note added at 52 days (2022-12-05 14:31:59 GMT) Post-grading
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No problem. Glad to have helped
Peer comment(s):
agree Daniela Miranda
14 days
Many thanks. Yes, I used to be a teacher so sure about this one
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Sorry for the super late closing of the question. Thank you, Yvonne "
9 hrs

No answer

I think it is a relatively limiting question because the situation (culture, background, schools, individuals, etc.) is quite different. Accordingly, I think there shall be no one correct answer to this question.
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