About the Mock Intervew write up
I do not think that the grade many people recieved on these were what they expected. I did not think that the directions were very good, and I believe many people did not understand EXACTLY what to do. It said to write a memo to you fellow student about you mock interview, but no one ever said it had to be in strict memo format. And I dont ever remember hearing about incorporating the Kolb Learning exercise into our papers. I dont even remember reading that in the directions. And it seemed like everyone got points off for both of these things. If they wanted strict memo format and Kolb Style learning included the Proffessors should have said something besides "Turn in a write up about your mockinterview experiences."
Comments
Posted by: Megan Kinney
Posted on: October 6, 2005 04:50 PM
I agree. I did not get the grade I was expecting, and I do not recall once anyone mentioning that we needed to inclue the Kolb Style Learning in our write-up. I was also not aware it had to be in complete memo form. Instead of going over how to work in a group for an hour and a half why dont we spend 5-10 minutes discussing what is actually expected of us on these little assignments?
Posted by: Sandy Piderit
Posted on: October 7, 2005 03:06 PM
Hm.... I'm puzzled. I just downloaded the following instructions from the "assignments" section on Blackboard:
Please write a 4 – 6 page memo to your classmates describing your mock interview experience and what you learned from it. Address the following questions, following the four phases of David Kolb’s experiential learning cycle.
1. How did you prepare for the interview? What intentions did you develop in your mind beforehand, and which of those were experiments in behaving differently than you had in previous interview experiences?
2. What happened in your interview? What did you say and do, and what did the interview say or do? Which interactions seemed especially key?
3. What are your reflections after the interview? What were you glad or proud about? What were you frustrated or sad about?
4. What principles would your extract from your experience, and carry with you as guidelines into future interview experiences? What do you most need to pay attention to, in order to be an effective interviewee?
5. What will you try out differently next time? What intentions can you form for your future behavior, based on your learning from this experience?
Looks pretty clear to me... perhaps you were absent the day that these instructions were distributed in class?
Posted by: AJ Baucco
Posted on: October 8, 2005 01:36 PM
haha...I havn't actually missed class. But perhaps the 9x bus decided to not come on time as usual and I may have gotten there late that day. However, I do recall seeing those instructions. But I had no clue what "following the four phases of David Kolb's experimential learning cycle" meant. Those particular directions don't seem clear to me personally. If it would have said "include in your answers refrence to the Kolb's learning cycle"...i may have done it...
Posted by: Ka Lok Tang
Posted on: October 9, 2005 08:22 PM
man, i read we have to mention something about that before, HOWEVER
Posted by: Aeu Mihara
Posted on: October 9, 2005 10:37 PM
I agree with you. I have gotten mine yet but it was not clear a first to me too. I ended up calling the professor the last minute to make sure I was doing the right thing. I hope this will not occur again the class.
Posted by: Eric Harrison
Posted on: October 9, 2005 11:48 PM
I agree. The directions were not clear. All they had to do was say "following memo format." Half a letter grade for not having a fancy heading doesn't seem right. After all, this was our first paper.
About the learning styles, I refered to it several times in my essay, but STILL got .25 off of every category. I think many people focused on answering the questions instead of incorporating the Kolb cycle. I did. In all honesty, I don't even think the Kolb cycle is even that useful, but that is another topic.