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Sep. 26th, 2006 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mari4212Someone please remind me that I'm not allowed to decapitate my Eco/Evo teacher?
We've been working on a lab for the previous two weeks. Today, we spent the lab time going over what he expects from our lab reports. This includes writing them in scientific journal format, complete with introduction, methods, results, discussion, and a resource list. Sure, fine, I can understand why he wants us to learn to use that format, and it is a logical form to use. We're also expected to find, at minimum, six primary resources for reference, and to preform statistical analysis using a new program that's only on the lab computers. Then he reminds us that this whole thing is due a week from today. One week to get the references, format our data, do analysis that requires us finding a time that we can access the lab, and pull it into a coherant document? When most of us have never done a lab report like this before?
A group of girls and I stayed behind after lab today and managed to talk him into giving us until next Friday instead of next Tuesday, so now it'll be merely difficult instead of impossible.
But still, couldn't he have at least told us at the beginning that we would need resources, when we'd have had a good amount of time to look them up and if necessary, have them shipped ILL? Or told us after lab last week that we would need to preform statistical analysis of our data using the lab software, so we'd have had a chance to make arrangements to access the lab sometime during the week?
Really, what is it with my teachers and not giving adequate perperation time for the students?
We've been working on a lab for the previous two weeks. Today, we spent the lab time going over what he expects from our lab reports. This includes writing them in scientific journal format, complete with introduction, methods, results, discussion, and a resource list. Sure, fine, I can understand why he wants us to learn to use that format, and it is a logical form to use. We're also expected to find, at minimum, six primary resources for reference, and to preform statistical analysis using a new program that's only on the lab computers. Then he reminds us that this whole thing is due a week from today. One week to get the references, format our data, do analysis that requires us finding a time that we can access the lab, and pull it into a coherant document? When most of us have never done a lab report like this before?
A group of girls and I stayed behind after lab today and managed to talk him into giving us until next Friday instead of next Tuesday, so now it'll be merely difficult instead of impossible.
But still, couldn't he have at least told us at the beginning that we would need resources, when we'd have had a good amount of time to look them up and if necessary, have them shipped ILL? Or told us after lab last week that we would need to preform statistical analysis of our data using the lab software, so we'd have had a chance to make arrangements to access the lab sometime during the week?
Really, what is it with my teachers and not giving adequate perperation time for the students?
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Date: 2006-09-27 04:52 pm (UTC)You're not allowed to decapitate your Eco/Evo teacher.
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Date: 2006-09-27 06:40 pm (UTC)It’s a logical fallacy that many teachers, both in high school and college seem to have. That is, they believe that you have only 1 class, or if you have multiply classes theirs is the only one that’s assigning papers that week, so it’s okay. I’ve had a few situations where every professor moved the paper up in time so you’d get theirs done before you had to worry about the other ones, except they all moved them to within a 2 week timeframe. Ah well, you’ll do a good job on the paper regardless, but yeah, getting told of what is expected ahead of time is always good, did he write the paper expectations in his syllabus?