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ASSESSMENT AND PLACEMENT OF STUDENTS
Prior to registering for coursework towards an associate degree, students must
submit official test scores on an approved Texas Success Initiative (TSI) test unless
the student meets one of the TSI exemptions. Approved TSI tests are the THEA,
THEA Q-T, COMPASS, ASSET and ACCUPLACER. Students who do not receive the
minimum required test scores will be required to enroll in developmental courses
and remain in those courses until passing test scores in each area (reading, writing
and math) are received or until the developmental course sequence in each area has
been successfully completed.
ATTENDANCE AND ABSENCE POLICY
Responsibility for class attendance rests with the student. Regular and punctual
attendance at all classes is expected. When a student has a legitimate reason for
being absent, the instructor has the option of permitting the student to make up
work missed and may require an explanation for the absence.
Students receiving financial aid are required by federal regulations to have begun
attending the courses for which they are enrolled on or before the census date (e.g.,
12th day of each semester). Attendance in an online course is verified by
substantial participation in the course on or before the census date. TVCC defines
substantial participation as logging in to the online course AND
completing/participating in at least one requirement of the course. Students
documented as “not attending” a course upon the census date are assumed (for
financial aid purposes) to have NOT begun attendance for that course, and this may
negatively affect financial aid disbursements.
The college reserves the right to evaluate individual cases of nonattendance. In
general, students are graded on the basis of intellectual effort and performance. In
many cases, class participation is a significant measure of performance, and
nonattendance can adversely affect a student’s grade. When, in the judgment of the
instructor, a student has been absent to such a degree as to jeopardize the chances
of success in the course, the instructor may recommend to the Advisement Center
that the student be dropped from the course. However, instructors are not required
to drop students from a course.
NOTE: Developmental students will NOT be dropped by their instructor for any
reason, including nonattendance. A grade of an A, B, C, F, or I/P will be awarded in
ALL Developmental courses.
To provide some consistency to the attendance policy, instructors may drop
students for nonattendance after they have accumulated the following number of
absences:
