On the last weeks, we got back our midterm results, there are half of our class were fail on this exam. Most of the part we fail was essay. Therefore, the professor wanted to give us a chance to change this midterm results. He gives to us whole class time to vote, which way is better for us to improve our grades. And vote for what type of format we wanted on our next exam. After that professor set on the side, and let us to make the decision what we going to do. Two people come up for our term leader. One is writing down the detail and other one just collect people ideas. Everyone call out of they own idea, disappoint some people idea, and so on. Even thought, some people really had a "compete to win" behavior, they want to their idea to win this class decision. Since the professor makes curve for our exam, but the grade are still lower. So, we wanted extra credit or to drop the lowest grade. Moreover, the decision of the format for the next exam was a lot bit chaos people spoke up around the class room. Some people wanted to keep the essay part or even more essay and short answers part, some wanted to get rid of it, some wanted only to have true and false and multiple- multiple choice questions, and so on. Some people didn't talk at all, and I was one of them. I had a rather accommodating behavior. On my situation, I very want to change the exam format. There is not essay on the exam because I didn’t have enough time to finish. Finally, in the end of class we get our decision done. The decision was made that we would all receive a curve, an optional extra credit assignment, and a drop of the lowest test grade (between the 1st and 2nd) to help our 1st exam grades. The other decision, regarding the exam format, was that we would keep the current format, but with the essay being of extra credit on the exam. Therefore, we succeeded in this class decision, and make our way to processor.
I was also accomodating, but I thought that the decision that was made in the end was a good one. It was frustrating at times but we all pulled through. This was a good experience for all of us because now we have something to think about when we make decisions in the future.
ReplyDeleteIt did get a little chaotic when we had to decide on the format for the next exam. Some people didn't understand the proposed options, some were totally against it and some were compromising. In the end, we tended to rush because we spent a lot of time discussing about the first exam. However, I was very satisfied with what we decided at the end. In this way, everyone got a chance to either boost up their grade and motivated some to work hard for the next test so that their lowest grade would be eliminated.
ReplyDeleteI was the accommodating type as well. I felt it was better to have the people speaking up just continue with their thoughts since they were speaking more on behalf of the whole class.
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