The Murk of Failure ITT Technical Institute (also known as ITT Tech) is clouding Information Technology field with unqualified graduates by giving students a false sense of security, burying students in debt, and hindering the learning potential of students by employing instructors who are often unqualified to teach the curriculum . One of the ways this “clouding” happens, is by giving students a false sense of security. This inflated perception of competence comes from ITT Tech speeding through the courses in an attempt to hurry students through toward graduation . Most graduates only retain a fraction of the information they learned. This is especially detrimental because the information the graduates were presented with was incomplete and poorly composed .
Students around the country are entirely different, along with the education systems in which they obtain their knowledge from. One test, combined in the mixing bowl, with the other negative ingredients, results in disadvantage for students with insufficient educators and lack of resources. Along with just one test, the skills measured are unevenly distributed, therefore ranking the lacking students at the bottom, leaving them out of monetary rewards and even college educations. The test makers for the ACT wanted to measure skills and intellectual levels, leaving out almost every factor that plays a part in education, which is just not possible. The steps that lead to knowledge are the ones that make the biggest impacts, which are the most different throughout the country, yet the tests are graded the exact same.
Unfortunately, the FCAT does not evaluate student’s performance correctly due to students that fall under pressure. The pressure that student’s feel and encounter is also known as test anxiety. According to Channel 7 reporter Erica Rakow’s in the article “FCAT Stresses Students Out, she claims” The responsibility of passing both reading and math portion of the FCAT in 10 grade adds a stressful ambiance to students who really do not want to retake it as a junior (par.2). Rakow also points out “That responsibility includes promotions to the next grade, and future funding for their school. Some students get so worked up about the test they can’t even get through it (par.3).
Students who drop out often have many factors that influence their decision. Research shows that key factors for students who are at highest risk of dropping out are: poor grades in core classes, low or poor attendance, failure to be promoted to the next grade, disengagement in the classroom, and behavioral problems (Kennelly, 2007). Student boredom, lack of challenging material, and disengagement due to lack of academic rigor have also been identified as indicators of academic failure. In recent years; the legislation of No Child Left Behind Act has contributed to a situation in which educators are caught between a rock and a hard place. Knowing that students are a greater risk of dropping out when they perform poorly in school, yet increased rigor in the classroom as a strategy to decrease the dropout rate, as identified in the No Child Left Behind Act has created a “Catch-22” situation for educators (Bridgeland J. D., 2009).
short term review is not likely to be of much benefit.” Short term review and trying to each students content are, in essence, what coaching programs are doing. Again, students should prepare in the long run for entrance exams by taking harder classes in high school. Unfortunately, in the United States many students from low-income families are in schools where they are not encouraged to take rigorous academic courses or the courses are just not offered to the students. There is also a positive correlation between family income and test performance. (Depalma).
Being honest in every aspect of what you do, working hard and creating your own work are crucial. Cheating and plagiarism are wrong for many reasons, and go against all that is academic integrity. According to (Boehm, Justice &Weeks 2009) “Academic dishonesty costs institutions administrative time, loss of integrity within the school, and student lack of respect for ethics and values.” (pg. 45) If you have poor academic integrity you aren’t learning or getting as much out of your education as you could be. It not only effects you, but everyone else as well.
According to deontological theories, students should not be purchasing these assignments. Buying these assignments isn’t fair to everyone involved. It’s not fair to the student because it doesn’t prepare or teach them about the course. Also, it is unfair to the teacher because they believe the student has an understanding of what is being taught. The solution to the dilemma using the deontological theories would be for the student to do what is right by everyone, which is completing their assignment on their own.
Devin Dufrene Essay 4 April 14, 2009 Failure Failure! Some students are afraid of it, Then again some students are given grades and passed anyway. Students should not be given grades and diplomas if they did not learn the necessary information and earn the grade. In this essay I will respond on how I agree with Mary Sherry in “In Praise of the F Word “on how students are hurt later in life First, if student doesn’t learn necessary information in high school he or she will not be able or having a lot off trouble in the after life with college or there new job. In example, if a student gets by in his English class not caring and not trying to learn, but his teacher likes the student so he passed him, when that student goes to college he will have trouble because he doesn’t know how to write a correct essay because he was given the grade.
Many teachers do not like “catching plagiarists and bringing them to academic justice.” As she states, it is not hard to just cite the author that originally had the information you are using (Bojar). Plagiarism is becoming a big problem in the school system. Many students do not understand what needs to be cited and what does not. The school system should teach students the proper way to cite, and they should teach them that copy and pasting is not writing a paper. According Bojar to students at the community college have a hard time juggling classes along with his or her family and a job.
Concerns about having to pay tuition costs and covering other costs like books, supplies, transportation, and etc… become really stressing to students who are not eligible or whom received very little aid. Students in the state of California who are in UC’s, CSU’s, and in Community Colleges experience this first hand because of the in-important priorities of the politicians resulting in budget cuts. The Government has been focusing the tax-payers money more into the incarceration of adults in prison than the education of the students. These priorities set by the Government are not fair in any way for the students because the educations of potential doctors, teachers, lawyers, and etc… rely on the funds that the Government decides to waste on prisons, so they could provide inmates with an education end up not going to school since they are not able to afford it. Colleges and Universities count on the general fund for half of their budgets, without this type of money colleges suffer tremendously resulting in less financial aid in a state level, less open seating in courses needed for student’s degrees, less faculty and staff,