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On 11/13/03 2:20 PM, "Beth Benoit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My suspicion antenna went up with this one. I assume the student brought you the proper documentation from DSS. If he has, it's certainly time to check with them and find out if that is indeed what they recommended. It's been my experience that sometimes there's a suspiciously large difference between what is recommended and what I'm told is recommended. And if they did recommend it, it sounds like it's time for an overhaul in that department. I can't believe it would be a policy that students would be told to ask the teacher for permission to take a test like that unless everybody else in the class is.
Finally, I'm in complete agreement with your thoughts about the difficulty of college for a student with "limited short-term memory." That's a suspiciously weird one too - maybe fodder for Oliver Sacks. (Does the student mistake his wife for a hat? Couldn't resist.) As I say a dozen times a week (usually under my breath), "Not everyone is meant to go to college." There's one who's probably not.
I'd be curious to know how this unfolds, Please keep us posted.
Beth Benoit
University System of New Hampshire
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From: "Paul Brandon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: here's a new one (for me anyway)
> At 10:27 AM -0800 11/13/03, Marte Fallshore wrote:
> >Fellow Tipsters:
> >
> >Earlier this quarter, I had a student come to me and tell me that he
> >was working with disabilities support services (DSS) because he has
> >limited short-term memory. My first thought was, "college is gonna
> >be really hard for you". I also admire his persistence and
> >willingness to try. However, yesterday he came to me and asked to be
> >able to use his notes during tests, something no one else is allowed
> >to do. This request was supposedly instigated by the director of
> >DSS. This is an intro psych class, and I use multiple-choice tests
> >as it is a large class. Has anyone else ever run into this type of
> >issue? How did you handle it? Not to sound like an intellectual
> >snob, but it seems to me college may not be the best place for a
> >student with this type of brain injury. Thanks in advance for the
> >thoughtful responses I expect to get,
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