Comment on 360 students bypassing the OEQ on the IE Lab

Instructing is a business and instructors are rated on how good they do. If a
student gets personal approval from a 360 instructor to bypass the OEQ on the
lab, then I see a big conflict of interest. What if an instructor does not
give approval? What pressures are there for an instructor (let's be
realistic, customer service is part of being an instructor)? How angry
can/will some folks get when they don't get approval? There are plenty of
variables.

I think the better route would have been to tout how much better 360 program
students are doing in the labs (pass rate) as compared to non-360 students (of
course there's muddy water, etc. but it is a fair approach).

I like the idea of the stone-faced proctor that you have no personal or
monetary ties to and how the lab, from what I understand, is normally graded
by a proctor in another timezone that you will likely never meet, etc.

Just my 2 cents.

Andre

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Received on Thu Mar 18 2010 - 09:01:31 ART