Post by Prone on Feb 8, 2007 16:42:31 GMT -8
The primary purpose of this thread is to discuss how your school does things. Mainly with academia. Does it have high standards? How well does it fare against cheating?
The college that I'm going to now, well at least the math room, has really high standards for it's students. There are 4 main areas that I would like to discuss: Attendance, Teacher/Student interaction, Test taking, and Walk in/Walk out policy.
Attendance
Everyday we go in the classroom, we have to electronically sign in using a keypad type system, which is linked to a database of all the students in the math department (I think). We also keep a timecard which is used for testing purposes.
Teacher/Student Interaction
The first day was the only time the teacher was up and personal with us, telling us the things that were going to happen during the school year. After that first day, it was just mainly us working by ourselves on our assignments. There are two groups of people in my class, the basic math people, and the elementary algebra people, I am in the second group. If we needed help, we could just go to the teacher and she would help us. There was usually more than one person needing help, so we would just have to wait our turn.
Test taking
Ok, the method of taking tests reminds me of the security of one of the casinos in ocean's 11. First of all you have to be done with your assignments in each chapter before you can take the test. Once you decide to take the test however, You have to grab your timecard (in the basket with all the folders which contain various students' timecards from other classes), take it to one of the office persons there, they will mark on it that you are ready to take the test. Once they've done that, they will give you your test.
The method of the test works like this. You cannot talk to anyone during the test. If you are done with the test and you talk to someone, your test is disqualified, and you'll have to redo it.
[story]
Today, I made the very mistake i shouldn't of had. I went in to do my first test. When I was done with the test, instead of going back to the teacher, I went up to one of my friends and I started talking to him about stuff. When I went back to the office, the teacher called me and said, "I need to talk to you later about your test." I promptly went back to where my friend was. I went back to the teacher after awhile and she basically told me this:
"When you do your test, your not supposed to be talking to anyone. When your done, you have to bring the test to me, or you'll disqualify your test."
I was kind of ticked after that. God my second test, did it in 10 minyutes, and missed 3 out of 15. Not bad, but I was mad.
[/story]
You can't even talk to your friend if you both are waiting to be helped, since "you might tell your friend the answers, even though I know you probably won't!"
Walk in/Walk out
Since this class is a lab class, the only reason I have to go to class is to take the test. It's not a fixed thing where I have to stay the entire time, only the time that is needed to take a test. It's a lab class, and I like it that way.
Anyone else care to ellaborate on their schools?
The college that I'm going to now, well at least the math room, has really high standards for it's students. There are 4 main areas that I would like to discuss: Attendance, Teacher/Student interaction, Test taking, and Walk in/Walk out policy.
Attendance
Everyday we go in the classroom, we have to electronically sign in using a keypad type system, which is linked to a database of all the students in the math department (I think). We also keep a timecard which is used for testing purposes.
Teacher/Student Interaction
The first day was the only time the teacher was up and personal with us, telling us the things that were going to happen during the school year. After that first day, it was just mainly us working by ourselves on our assignments. There are two groups of people in my class, the basic math people, and the elementary algebra people, I am in the second group. If we needed help, we could just go to the teacher and she would help us. There was usually more than one person needing help, so we would just have to wait our turn.
Test taking
Ok, the method of taking tests reminds me of the security of one of the casinos in ocean's 11. First of all you have to be done with your assignments in each chapter before you can take the test. Once you decide to take the test however, You have to grab your timecard (in the basket with all the folders which contain various students' timecards from other classes), take it to one of the office persons there, they will mark on it that you are ready to take the test. Once they've done that, they will give you your test.
The method of the test works like this. You cannot talk to anyone during the test. If you are done with the test and you talk to someone, your test is disqualified, and you'll have to redo it.
[story]
Today, I made the very mistake i shouldn't of had. I went in to do my first test. When I was done with the test, instead of going back to the teacher, I went up to one of my friends and I started talking to him about stuff. When I went back to the office, the teacher called me and said, "I need to talk to you later about your test." I promptly went back to where my friend was. I went back to the teacher after awhile and she basically told me this:
"When you do your test, your not supposed to be talking to anyone. When your done, you have to bring the test to me, or you'll disqualify your test."
I was kind of ticked after that. God my second test, did it in 10 minyutes, and missed 3 out of 15. Not bad, but I was mad.
[/story]
You can't even talk to your friend if you both are waiting to be helped, since "you might tell your friend the answers, even though I know you probably won't!"
Walk in/Walk out
Since this class is a lab class, the only reason I have to go to class is to take the test. It's not a fixed thing where I have to stay the entire time, only the time that is needed to take a test. It's a lab class, and I like it that way.
Anyone else care to ellaborate on their schools?