As a professor whose always trying to enhance the student experience in the classroom I try to make my exams as fair as possible and to reflect the materials we went over in class, I would like to get honest feedback of what you guys thought of the midterm.” These were the words of the professor at the beginning of class. A few students raised their hands to give their honest opinion of the structure, the level of difficulty, time allotted among another reasons why we all thought the exam was to intense. After the professor posted the statistics of the exam ( 59.99) the class average)there was a different outlook a lot of students now started to voice their opinions whether or not they had those opinions before am not certain but the variance on hands raised at the beginning and after the statistics was given was at the end of both spectrum.
After I saw my score and the professor give us the option of negotiating our grade I chose to be collaborative. I quickly analyzed the situation after I saw my grade and realized that the entire class had to agree upon any proposal made. In the classroom I noticed a combination of other methods in practice for example, now I don’t know the students name but am almost certain you’ll understand my point here-the student that got the highest grade in the class exercised accommodation because he did not have to agree on any proposals that we made because as is his raw grade was good as gold but he stood in there and went along with our decisions because most of his classmates were in dying need of extra points so he put his interest at the side cause his classmates were more important and I totally thank you for being selfless. Another incident that I observed were a lot of students just sat back and made other people make decisions for them that would affect their grade this was an example of avoidance. I thought that the students who withdrew themselves were afraid to voice their opinions in the event that they thought that the class would be upset with them because of the fact that 100% as the professor clearly stated had to agree with whatever proposal made, and I think the professor realized this to, this is why he kept reiterating, “I would do whatever it takes to protect whoever don’t agree with the majority.”
Overall given the circumstances, the time, and the stakes up for grabs(improving our grade) I thought that the class handled the situation quite efficiently and our results were remarkable given the amount of players in the decision process and what was up for grabs(our grades).
Every situation that our professor asks of us duplicates the real life and gears us up for when we become managers some day.
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