Ramon Avila
| School: | Ball State University |
| Department: | Marketing |
| Location: | Muncie, IN |
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I had an 18/20 for my first assignment. It was a self introduction on a discussion post. It didn't have a grading rubric and it seemed simple enough. I was merely introducing myself. I thought it was odd. I asked him in an email why I had two points deducted from an unspecified assignment, but he didn't give a clear answer. He said he wanted to get to know us more and he could only do that via discussion boards. Doing good on early assignments make up for future mistakes. On the first exam I got a 91 percent. I thought I answered every question correctly. It was not a big deal and I thought I could do better, so I didn't really care, but eventually I saw a pattern. The first, second, third and fourth exam. I had 90% on every single essay question. I'm locked at 89 percent for unknown reasons. This class can be self taught and having him there makes no difference. His class is rigged. He reuses old videos to make his job easier. Five exams and five discussion post. Most people will do well if you try, just not an A. I try hard and that was my disappointment. This class is not for real education. It was a hard class for me because I wanted that Summa Cum Laude, the A was impossible and that was my frustration. My qualm is that being a teacher that doesn't teacher has jeopardized my right to be graded fairly. I just don't like people that cheat the system like he has. |
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Perhaps the worst professor I have ever had in my life. He seems fine in lectures -- makes you believe he'll be really helpful, appears knowledgeable. Then he assigns projects with ambiguous instructions, isn't available to answer questions and when he does he's rude and treats you like an idiot for even daring to disturb him with your "unworthy" questions, then he grades the project subjectively and based on knowledge that he has NOT taught you or told you where to go to obtain. I'm only giving him a "4" for easiness because you have to be a mind reader to pass his class -- that's the hard part. I completely understand everything in the assigned text and his lectures -- but does he grade that -- NOOOOO -- there are no exams, just these projects that give no clear instructions or directions. His grades aren't based on what you've learned in his lectures or in the chapters he assigns. Then he won't give you any useful feedback to help you get a better grade on the next project. He's clearly completely full of himself and trying to "justify" his intelligence by making students feel like they aren't worthy to be in the MBA program if they can't read his mind. I believe the majority of the people in his class would do well in his class if given the chance (they're MBA students, of course they're trying to do their best) -- instead he tries to make sure only 1 or 2 people receive As, a few more receive Bs, and the rest receive Cs and Ds, so he can make his class look useful and "hard" to his peer professors -- but the class is really just an exercise in mind reading. It's unfortunate that his class was the first class I was exposed to at Ball State in the MBA program. I was excited to begin my journey towards my MBA. Everyone was very helpful during the application and registration stage -- I thought that would be a reflection on the rest of the staff at Ball State. Now that doesn't seem to be the case. |
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