Testing Center

In most cases, Brigham Young University’s idea of having a building set aside for testing is an excellent way to provide students with the maximum time necessary with their professors in class. The concept of the Testing Center, although an exceptional quality, needs to be taken into a smaller setting. Instead of jamming students into a room at certain hours, the testing center should have paired off classrooms for paired off subjects. This way the setting of the test is substantially smaller, and more convenient for those watching the testing. By separating the Testing Center into different sects, employees working there, as well as the grading process will simplify the entire process. Employees will be capable of knowing what exams are being taken and for what subject. Although students are upheld by the honor code, cheating is still a large factor in today’s education. With so many students crammed into a building, it is difficult for employees to catch students cheating. In most cases, when employees circle around the students in an uncomfortable pattern, students hesitate no longer have full concentration on their exam whether there cheating or not. With smaller classrooms, employees wouldn’t have to deal with the policing students. The individuals will be in smaller numbers making cheating fairly noticeable without having to put additional pressure on students.
Whether this type of classroom setting would discharge additional pressure to students is a commonly composed question. Exams are necessary to analysis what students have understood on the material given. Testing can be a very high pressured and stressful event depending on the student. The way the Testing Center at Brigham Young University is set up can only apply more pressure and stress upon students testing within it. With such a high capacity of students, a constant flow of traffic is inevitable.When taking into consideration the amount of individuals that enter and exit those doors, the noise and chaos is not beneficiary to the students. When taking exams, constant movement in ones peripheral vision can be very distracting, especially to students who are placed near the doorways. By cutting the rooms into smaller sect’s students don’t have to deal with the high capacity of people moving around them while they take an exam. Instead they can be shaved into smaller classrooms and given the quite environment needed to study. Another advantage of moving students into smaller rooms is to lessen the pressure. Employees won’t have to confront each student or stand by or around, giving the students the opportunity to have complete and total focus on the task at hand.

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