Personally, the way that i chose to use to handle the chaos during the class decision making exercise was compromise. For enhance my grade, i wanted the professor to drop the lowest score exam, to curve the exams, to give out extra credits, and to reformat the exam.
By reformatting, I meant to make the next exams all mutiple choices, but no mutiple-multiple choices or just multiple-multiple choices but tell us how many that we need to choose in one question. Also, I didn't want to have essay questions on the exam. I am not good at thinking and writing the essay in a short time. Usually I need to spend one to two hours to write an essay. For this exam, on the essay part, I lost 27 points. That meant the highest score that i could get is 73 if all other questions were correct, which is impossible. Therefore, i just got a D on this exam without curve. I can foresee the next exam if there is an essay question, i will get a similar grade.
However, I know that some students are good at essay questions, they want to have essay questions on the exam. It was impossible to get everyone to agree on this, thus this idea had to be terminated. At least, I got what i wanted of the first three: drop, curve, and extra credit. I'm satisfied.
The other way to handle the conflicts to get a more desirable result is collaboration. This is better because I can bargain with other students who are good at essay to let them agree on no essay on the next exams or change the essay to a short question problem that just require us to write a paragraph. By using the collaboration method, there is at least a chance of getting the result that i'm hoping for.
10/01/2008
Egg Project Evaluation
Our group had a successful result on the project. We had gone through all of the steps in the planning process.
First, we defined our goals and objectives, which was to unbreak the egg when we dropped from a ten feet high place, using any method as long as there was 50% of the egg uncovered by the given resources. The given resources were eight straws, an egg, a limited tape, and a scissor.
We came up three different ideas on how to build the egg. We then talked about the ideas, and discussed which idea was most likely not to break the egg. Finally, we chose Mira's proposal, the pyramid shape. Her idea was that the egg was been protected in the middle of the pyramid, no matter which way it hit the floor, the egg would not touch the floor, thus won't break. Unlike our ideas that all had a 50% of opportunity that the uncovered side of the egg may hit on the floor.
It was very difficult to understand how to build the model from the picture she drew. So then she used the pens to roughly showed us the structures of the model. From the model, we clearly visioned the structures that we needed six straws to build the outside of the pyramid-three straws for the heights and three straws for the bases. The other two straws we needed to cut them into half, this was the only time that we needed the scissor. This four half-sized straws were for the inside of the pyramid, where we supported the egg in the center by connecting it into the four different corners.
There were six people in our group. For the model, we needed a designer, a writter, a dropper, a person to get the scissor, and two people to build the designed model. Becasue of the time limit, at the end, almost all of us were helping to set up the model. Finally we built up the model within the given time.
I think our performance is effective because we shared our ideas and listened to other people's ideas, then chose the best one, and we used all the resources given effectively within the limited time.
I feel our planning task is very effective, and i don't see anything that i can make corrections from. Maybe someone can tell me what can we do to make our group task more effectively.
First, we defined our goals and objectives, which was to unbreak the egg when we dropped from a ten feet high place, using any method as long as there was 50% of the egg uncovered by the given resources. The given resources were eight straws, an egg, a limited tape, and a scissor.
We came up three different ideas on how to build the egg. We then talked about the ideas, and discussed which idea was most likely not to break the egg. Finally, we chose Mira's proposal, the pyramid shape. Her idea was that the egg was been protected in the middle of the pyramid, no matter which way it hit the floor, the egg would not touch the floor, thus won't break. Unlike our ideas that all had a 50% of opportunity that the uncovered side of the egg may hit on the floor.
It was very difficult to understand how to build the model from the picture she drew. So then she used the pens to roughly showed us the structures of the model. From the model, we clearly visioned the structures that we needed six straws to build the outside of the pyramid-three straws for the heights and three straws for the bases. The other two straws we needed to cut them into half, this was the only time that we needed the scissor. This four half-sized straws were for the inside of the pyramid, where we supported the egg in the center by connecting it into the four different corners.
There were six people in our group. For the model, we needed a designer, a writter, a dropper, a person to get the scissor, and two people to build the designed model. Becasue of the time limit, at the end, almost all of us were helping to set up the model. Finally we built up the model within the given time.
I think our performance is effective because we shared our ideas and listened to other people's ideas, then chose the best one, and we used all the resources given effectively within the limited time.
I feel our planning task is very effective, and i don't see anything that i can make corrections from. Maybe someone can tell me what can we do to make our group task more effectively.
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