Witnessing the decision making process in such a large group was quite interesting! Great to see how leaders emerged and the path which led us to our final outcome.
I used a combination of accommodation and compromise on my end. Accommodation came into play in terms of the elimination of the essay. I often feel that essays can be helpful on exams as they can be a good way to get partial credit and demonstrate some areas you may have strengths in. Others do not often feel this way so in that sense I chose to accommodate to their needs.
Compromise came into play with the true or false aspect. I am not a fan of true or false because they can often be confusing depending upon interpretation. While I would have liked them eliminated, incorporating five was not a big deal for me to agree on.
I was happy with the outcome and think things went quite well considering what an intense fiasco it could have turned out to be with no one agreeing on anything in a group that large. I have seen smaller groups in real life not able to come to any decisions so hats off to us!
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I agree. Im still a little amazed that after so many people had dissenting opinions we were able to come together on one thing.
ReplyDeleteConcerning true or false, i really want to know how many people were for that. Cause it almost seems like it was the whole class accommodating just a small handful of people by accepting 5 T/F questions.
I am also not a fan of T/F. I find some of them from the last exam misleading and confusing. I'm glad we limited them down to five. And I think when it comes to group decision, we have to accommodate with others or else we would not go anywhere (as demonstrated in the beginning of the class "discussion"). Well, good luck in the upcoming midterm!
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I agree that true and false questions can be very vague. I often get those questions mixed up because whoever made those questions might realize that since there are only 50 % chance of getting it right, SO they wanted to make the questions kind of hard to understand and also can be interpreted into many different ways based on individuals.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the class as a whole did a good job coming up with a “conclusion.” I also used the compromise method because we should all give in a bit to achieve our main goal. I do agree with you that essays are good at times, like on exam one the essay wasn't that bad, it was straight forward. =)
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