The first word that came to my mind about the class’ decision making process on 10/15/2007 is chaos. There were some limitations that the professor set at the very beginning, so we have scarce resources in determining our decision. This gave the biggest problem of all because the class is not going to know if the decisions that we made will work/approve. Then there was the person in charge issue because there were a couple of people in charge, in which each have their own opinions that then leads to poor communications.
The test result was that a majority of students didn't do so good since the curve was made with one grade higher than our originally grade. This wasn't satistfied by the majority of the class since there were proposals on giving extra credits, rewriting the essays, and making some changes to the next exam due to its difficulty on this one. And the chaos starts right here. During the class’ decision making process, the majority of the people handle it by competiting to win their own idea. Everyone have their own ideas to try to make their grades more desirable and meaningful. The whole class seem to can not decide how many extra credit points to have until the last couple minutes of class, we finally made some compromises and collaboration.
I personally was very into the dicusion at the beginning, but turned into avoidance after afterwards. Everyone in the classroom were yelling back and forth at each other and shouting out all kinds of ideas that people don't tend to agree on. I then realized that we are heading nowhere if this chaos continues, so I just lean back and watch what will happen at the very end. After getting more information about the decision making process, I think the best way to handle this conflict is through collaboration due to the fact that we have a large discussion group. We should have divided the class into groups and let each group come up with ideas due to a large number of people involved in the decision making. Then the class as a whole will vote on the best one stating that "it is either this or that" idea. This method save us some arguing time and give more desirable results. I think this method will be more efficient in decision making with some many people involved.
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Thank you for your well written post. Chaos is a good word to use, but the chaos WAS instructive...hopefully it allowed everyone to see the different ways of approaching decision making, and what works best under various circumstances. Thank you for thinking about your role--it is a situation you may one day encounter again, and now you are prepared!
--prof K
Hi' I agree I think it was very caotic for a while, but I think it calmed down. People started to listen to each other. I think more people were working together towards the end the they were at the begining.
I definitely agree that it was chaos because everyone was looking out for their own self interest. I believe that your alternative way of splitting the class into groups would have been more efficient and less chaotic. I think there were a lot of that chose the avoidance approach as we came to realize that it was only going to be more chaotic if more different opinions and thoughts were mixed with that scene.
I think that we did have good leaders guiding us during class they were listening and trying to get the group to agree and create the proposal. I think that the chaos was created because not everybody was willing to compromise at first. I was actually surprised to see that at the end everybody did come to an agreement.
I agree with the professor Chasos, was the word for our class. And yeah after a while i couldn't stand how everyone was arguing so i also decided to watch the show. We definatly needed to establish some sort of structure so everyone could have a say and by dividing the class. I think we would have had that structure. Basically this was a lesson learned.
As you said chaos is the word do describe our class on Monday night. I believe that towards the end it was getting worse because of the time limit we had and we weren't getting far with our decision. I thought that we wouldnt get anywhere but somehow we managaed to get a plan couple minutes after the class ended.
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