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How it all measured up

Life, Opinions, School, UofA — alisa on December 19, 2007 at 1:35 pm

All of my final grades have been released. The following graph shows my final grade, what grade I think my professor deserves, and how I grade the class as a whole. I gave my professors grades based on how I felt I was treated, how much interest they put into the class, and how well they taught. I graded the class on how people interacted together and how interesting the material was.

For all of my classes, the material was pretty interesting, but not necessarily something that I would use outside of college. In the case of my Books and Dialog class, the material will be useful for my whole life (I didn’t sell back any of that class’s books), but the people in my discussion group did not want to participate.

As for the professor ratings, the two professors who got an A knew how to teach well, had a tight lecture schedule that they stuck to, and knew my name. My professor in my Latin American class knew my name by the second week, and I was one of 200 students (give or take a few) in her lecture hall. My English teacher, though very nice, did not teach me anything. I’m not sure if she taught anyone in that class anything. And my Human Geography professor seemed to enjoy teaching, but he didn’t enjoy anyone who was not an honors student.

How it all measured up

I got a B in English. Eighty percent of the grade was based on 4 essays, and the remaining percentage was based on other little writing projects that we did. My essay grades were really all over the place in that class. I don’t feel like I’m that inconsistent in my writing, but maybe the inconsistency comes a little from my professor and a little from me.
Essay Graph

It is such a relief to have this semester over with.

4 Comments »

  1. Those are excellent grades. Congratulations.

    Comment by shealyisnottheantichrist — December 19, 2007 @ 4:21 pm
  2. Very good job! I am proud of you, and you should be too.

    Comment by Auntie — December 19, 2007 @ 4:27 pm
  3. Congratulations on getting through the semester!

    Thanks for taking the time to make the visual aids, it’s always nice to see pictures in posts :-)

    Comment by Kai Schaller — December 20, 2007 @ 3:13 am
  4. Thanks everyone!

    Kai: If a longish post doesn’t have pictures, I usually don’t read it. I figure I’d do everyone a favor. Also, I don’t know how to use Illustrator that well, so it’s time to practice. :D

    Comment by Alisa — December 20, 2007 @ 2:19 pm

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