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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reminds me of one of my classes. None of the questions in the tests matched what was covered in the lectures or textbook. It was the most interesting class but grade wise it was the worst. To this day I remember her lectures, she was brilliant. And a terrible test writer. [/quote]

It's definitely possible that this is what's happening, just like it's possible that the kids are complaining about tests that are appropriately difficult. It's really hard to say without having taken the class and taken the exams, so it becomes this Rorschach test that reveals whatever you already think about what's happening in colleges, but nothing else.[/quote]

I’ve had experience with new teachers who haven’t yet calibrated their tests and give tests that almost no one can pass. In this case, it’s a professor who is giving the same tests he has given for decades (and allegedly tried to make them easier). Nothing has changed but the students. [/quote]

It's possible, but we had an experienced professor when I was in school who taught and then had every single student fail the standardized university exam (it was a language class). The same students passed the exam after another course with a different teacher (and being exposed to the material twice, obviously), sometimes these things happen.[/quote]

Similar situation but in a high school, and the case was really just that the teacher was well beyond retirement and no longer connecting with the students and the material, so he wasn't "teaching" the people in front of him (and was absent a lot). He said, but kids used to get it; must be something wrong with these kids (who were admitted to this particular class because they were the cream of the crop). Well, you used to actually teach it to the students; now you think they should just magically know what you know for some reason? Not everyone ages gracefully. When your students are all failing, it might just be time to retire.[/quote]

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