Who's to blame?

[hopefullywillpass2]

Hi everyone, here's my major malfunction. At what point is teacher accountability brought into play for failure rate? Nursing is a very challenging degree, i get that. I work in study groups 4 days a week for about 6 hours a day and all except 1 person passed the exam for med-surg. How is this even possible?! We studied our ***** off for weeks and hours on end, to see a 62%?!?!?! That one person who passed got a 79%. What I think the issue here is the instructors are focusing on the wrong subjects in class. What good is reading 7 chapters if we are not discussing them in class for clarity ? I ask tons of questions. Nothing we went over in class was on the exam, not one thing. He also gave us a study guide 1 day before the exam (after we were studying for 2 weeks already!) and nothing appeared on the exam that appeared on the study guide. It would have been nice to say that I used the study guide as a crutch to pass, but we did not do that as we were studying for 2 weeks prior to getting this. How is this even legal? Yes, totally see that we have lives in our hands. But come on now, how much of this is actually my fault? How can a school even go on if it fails an entire class??? Doesn't that make up for a bad reputation? Help. I don't know what to do anymore.... 40,000 is a lot at stake here to get nothing out of.

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

If you feel there is an issue with instruction, your first/best option is to schedule a meeting with your professor during his office hours and go over the material and your concerns. If that fails, investigate your school's process for speaking with your Dean and appealing your grade. In the meantime, continue to do your best. Assigning blame isn't going to bring your grade up.

[hopefullywillpass2]

Thank you very much for your response. We've had a few instances of having to go to the dean in the past, and that was resolved by firing the teacher who was violating her own syllabus. However, they have said "you guys are complaining about everything now." I am really regretting my decision to go to Chamberlain as I cannot just transfer and have credits follow me. I don't think that complaining about not being taught in class is complaining, it's bringing attention to the issue at hand. It is a for-profit university so at the end of the day it's a business. But I mean how many people really have the same issues with their instructors at other schools? I never heard of any other school having these issues.

[joy686]

I am an RN IN THE online program. The instructors have been great. I would bring the study guide to the dean and let him/her request to review the exam.