Art prereq

[sugar'n'spice]

I'm getting discouraged in my art class! It is a 4 week winter intersession, so 16 weeks crammed in one, the whole book. I love it though because it's quick, or I did love it...

Each week we have 20+ quizzes, from the book and then videos.... so the second week I found problems in 7 of the video quizzes! We get 2 turns to take the quiz. If you miss any the first time, it gives you the correct answers so you can take it a second time.

My problem is I KNEW in 7 of those quizzes, the answer guides were wrong. I read straight from the video transcript. So my options were to retake the quiz using the answer guide's "wrong" answers, or email the teacher. Both of these options were very time consuming. I'm frustrated with the teacher making these numerous mistakes that are costing me valuable study time.

So I emailed him and he made a blackboard announcement, but didn't respond to my emails to say thank you or anything. Honestly, I was trying to make him aware so it won't waste future student's time.

At the end of our classes, the school ask for a review. And I'm going to be nice, but also honest and mention the time wasting aspect of multiple wrong quizzes. Will that be ok? Or is it something I should look past after mentioning it to the teacher?

And now I'm dreading the final two weeks of quizzes, I hope he goes over them!

[FutureNurseInfo]

So, I assume you are taking the art history class. I had one a few years ago, though it was a semester-long course. In your case, it is only 4 weeks, which is good and bad. The good thing about it is, it is only 4 weeks! However, as you indicated it is very labor intensive! Are you sure you have 20+ quizzes each week? As far as reaching out to your professor about wrong quizzes, I think you should have not done that. To begin with, from my own experience nothing gets fixed even if you address the issue. Also, I do not have hard evidence, but many professors do not like to be corrected and told their quizzes/teaching is wrong/ineffective. And as a result, you are now worried how the rest of the course will go now, and probably how that will affect your grade. However, you have the right to evaluate your professor's performance, just like he/she does yours! Of course, be truthful and state only the facts; do not embellish. I hope the rest of the course will go smoothly for you. Good luck!

[ItsThatJenGirl, CNA]

I'd let it go and be thankful it's over :)

[sugar'n'spice]

It is a 4 week class, art appreciation, so yea- art history really, the first week we had 27 quizzes and 2 art projects, the second week we had 25 quizzes and 2 art projects, expecting the 3rd and 4th week to be about the same.

If I am paying for my education, I thought it was only fair to tell the teacher about the mistakes, b/c he is failing me as a student- and literally wasting a lot of my time. That is the part that really gets to me- the extra time it is costing me. And he will do the same to future students if he is not aware.

I see this as helping. I am not trying to make him feel dumb, but these are his mistakes, so he will feel however he wants. But now you say this, I realize I should not expect a "thank you" because I may have hurt his pride.

I have read over many post in this forum and have gotten the general consensus to "not make waves". If this was a job, or maybe even nursing school, I would have kept quiet. Idk though, when something is blatantly wrong, and I have proof word for word, and it negatively effects me and possibly hundreds of other students.... it is hard for me to stay quiet!

All throughout my secondary education, I have been encouraged to ask questions if I didn't understand something.

I emailed him again today, because he counted my answer in one quiz as wrong even though I mentioned the conflict. (The other quizzes he counted as correct.) Hopefully he can respond and explain the answer to me because I do not understand. That's what teachers are for right? for learning? I'm being very nice in all emails, with my "Mr." and "pleases" and "thank yous"

I definitely will not go over his head about any of this, because I am still making an A+. But I may be honest on the review IF he won't respond to my question. If this was a in-person class, I could just question him face to face, like a normal situation...

I could have honestly went through this class on cake: only skimming and not really trying- take the quiz once, get all the answers from the study guide, then take it again and make a 100.... but I am taking my education seriously and find it fulfilling. I imagine he hasn't been shown the mistakes before because other students did the "cake walk" or either this is his first Art Class.....

Thank you for your responses though, I'm sure I'm going to use this forum many times as I follow my nursing path- so I can be reminded to "not make waves!"

[ItsThatJenGirl, CNA]

IMO, it's not about "not making waves", but about picking your battles. If this is something you feel strongly about, by all means - express your concerns in the evaluation and continue to question the things he marks as incorrect!

[sugar'n'spice]

You guys were right though, should have not cared and went ahead and wasted my time rather than informing my teacher.

It seems as if he is taking the "petty road". He has now taken away all answer guides and reducing the number of times you can take the quiz from 2 to only once. I've emailed about this change also. It seems unethical. We will see..... I feel this is now a bigger battle than I intended. Next step (if no email response) will be going to his office to ask questions/clarification.

I really did not expect this pettiness or pride from a teacher. I thought they cared about the students.

[sugar'n'spice]

whew, crisis over! after some very nice emails back and forth, misunderstanding adverted!

I will definitely be more careful about "picking my battles", even though this ended up not being one- it gave me so much anxiety, so much so that I didn't want to open my student email again! lesson learned :)