Tuesday, May 12, 2009

After test chaos

We had just gotten our tests back and found out the results of our examination, and what does the professor do? He uses this opportunity to teach us a lesson on management. Making a decision when it comes to certain things is hard, but making that decision after receiving your first exam back makes making a decision much harder. Besides the shock of having our tests given back to us and the shock of this group assignment another way the professor decided to mess with us was that we had to vote 100% on the changes that we want made on our test format, extra credit on the test, and review format. Getting 100% vote is one of the hardest things to do without the other conditions that I had mentioned but somehow we managed to do it.
The decision making exercise showed what people would do under a decision making situation with a large group of people. What I did was discuss some solution and some different changes to make with the people around me. But since there was no real leader to guide the class to their goal nothing was happening. After a little bit, a guy named Teddy went up and started delegating to the group. This made things a lot better, he got a lot of different ideas on the board and we voted on what we wanted. With his role as the leader our entire class was able to get a curve, extra credit and a lot of different benefits that we would have never gotten if the chaos that happened earlier stayed. It was a nerve wrecking group assignment and the professor was smart to do it like that because I learned a lot.

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