What About Us?
In today's class, we talked about our grades on the learning plans and more importantly our grades in general. The thing I found ironic about all of this was that we just finished discussion about feedback and its importance, and now we as students are not receiving the type of feedback we need in order to excel in the classroom. Many of us feel that we are in jeopardy as far as our grades go, and we are unclear about where we stand. As students we are constantly doing school work and trying our best to get good grades and when we do not get any feedback about how we are doing, that can build stress and concern. It is vital that we have a ballpark estimate of where were stand in regards to our grades. We need to get feedback, not just talk about.
Comments
Posted by: Matthew Yowonske
Posted on: November 19, 2005 09:19 PM
I agree. This is not only a problem in management class, but almost all the classes I have here at Case. I never receive any feedback about grades or my performance until midterms are due...sometimes even final grades. Some professors don't even give back tests or papers, and they leave you wondering how you are performing in the class. Sometimes Blackboard solves this problem with it's view grades system, but sometimes even that is very faulty. The classroom is very similar to the workplace, and feedback is of equal importantce in both environments.
Posted by: Bobby Bucek
Posted on: November 29, 2005 11:55 PM
I agree with you too. I feel that we do not get specific feedback from the professors and TA's. I am angry with the fact that many people got low grades on their Learning Plan's, including me, and all my grading sheet said was to see the handout that our TA gave to the class. When I looked at the handout, all it said was basically a reiteration of the syllabus. Additionally, there have been several times where the professors have said different things. It makes things very confusing when the faculty is not on the same page. I hope management 251 will be a little more organized.