I know that as a general rule we find that students who transfer
into our school after 2 years at a JC are as likely as not to
to be academically dismissed after 1 year here (1 semester for
probation and 1 semester for dismissal). A 4.0 from a JC tends to
be a very poor predictor of performance at our 4-year institution.
Some of the students do remarkably well because they really deserved
those As they got and some do remarkably terrible and are very, very,
very upset because they can't understand what's going on--but what's
going on is that they got "A's like candy" wherever they were at
before :-(
annette
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Jeff Ricker wrote:
> There are certain general-studies couses that almost all students at my
> school take that are notoriously easy. I just had a student who has been
> getting F's and D's on my tests, but who is getting an A and a B in two
> of these other courses. She just barely got a C on my last test because,
> she told me, she finally studied the material. When students get into my
> course, they cannot understand why I am so "hard." I can't blame them
> for thinking this way about my courses when their experiences in certain
> other disciplines at this school show them that they can get a good
> grade with little or no work.
>
> Has this been a problem at your school (i.e., large differences across
> disciplines in the rigor of courses)? Is there anything that any of you
> have done that has helped to change this situation? Short of beginning a
> campus-wide discussion of standards, I don't know what can be done. What
> upsets me about it is that these students don't have a chance once they
> get into upper-division courses. I'm also wondering if this is more of a
> problem at community colleges than at other centers of higher education.
> If so, it puts students transferring from community colleges at a
> disadvantage.
>
> Yours in the struggle,
>
> Jeff
>
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> 9000 E. Chaparral Rd. FAX Number: (480) 423-6298
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>
> "The truth is rare and never simple."
> Oscar Wilde
>
> "Instead of having 'answers' on a test, they should just call
> them 'impressions'. And, if you got a different 'impression',
> so what? Can't we all be brothers?"
> Jack Handey
>
>
>
Annette Taylor, Ph. D.
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