Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Testing Center Nightmare
The Brigham Young University Testing Center is a designed facility where students are administered tests from all courses they are taking within the semester. The Testing Center gives professors the opportunity to use the designated class time for lecture and the center for tests. With all upsides to the Testing Center, the most overlooked problem to what seems a flawless building is the physiological games it place on the individuals testing there. In most cases, with a very large classroom setting, students are prone to feel overwhelmed with the unnoticed chaos. While inside, individuals from all surroundings move restlessly, then the constant noise of writing to paper chimes in and to finish it all off, the employees breathing down your back while taking a test can be a very hard situation to concentrate in. This much commotion in a small class room setting is not nearly as noticeable, but with a building that has a testing capacity of 650, all these little noises combined can get be deafening. The testing center needs to distribute the students into small classroom type surroundings. By testing students in small groups each person is given the best chance to perform at their upmost potential.
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I completely agree. I can never concentrate in the testing center. I would much rather take a test in a classroom. This is a good issue because it can relate to every student.
I agree with you, the testing center needs to spread students out in classrooms. The points in your paragraph were good but I think a few of your sentences could be worded better.
Yea I know I was trying to somehow save all the points for the body, but bring it up in the intro. Thanks for the input.
Part of what you'll need to address is the logistics of this--if they do divide it into smaller rooms, would they need more employees to monitor for cheating? When would BYU do this construction project? Where would people take tests while the construction is occurring? Also, where would BYU get the money for this project? Also, there's a small music room upstairs--why isn't that enough?
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