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veiledsentiments
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op=original poster...
Your day at the beach sounded lovely... there is much to miss about Oman.
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Aliskander
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 4:36 am Post subject: |
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One of the reasons for a 'caustic' environment in Salalah is because one or two teachers are known for giving out the test questions - and these are British teachers. This was so obvious recently, two mid-terms for the entire first year students had to be rewritten and re-administrated.
Some teachers, who aren't fully qualified, or have other personality disorders, like to make themselves look better than everyone else. Since they can't really teach, they can manipulate the numbers and make their students look like they learned more than others.
This situation caused havoc in Salalah. Let's hope the Ministry has completed their investigation and moves on it, hoping the truth that is out there forces the Ministry to remove the problem. |
I think anyone should be careful when making such accuscations without any supporting proof.
1) In Salalah some first year students were given exam information - who gave it to them has not been discovered as there have been about 6 different teachers named. Contrary to your post the nationalities were mixed. The Ministry was not involved - the dean just decided that he would never definately find out what happened so a resit was arranged - it did not cause 'havoc', just a little blip. What was interesting was that there was no real difference in the level of marks between both sets of exams.
2) I would be interested to know what qualifies you to judge other teachers abilities and qualifications?
3) Manipulate numbers - How? As in all MoHE colleges, all graded work is marked NOT by the class teacher but by 2 other teachers. How can the class teacher manipulate anything? The lack of ability by the student would be picked up quite quickly from the results of their assignments, issue logs and / or exams - no matter what the teacher says.
4) Caustic environment? I know people who work at Salalah college and they have never mentioned this. As in every place of work with people of mixed personalities some people get on and some don't. There are some people from Salalah college who cause unnecessary upset, make unpleasant and unfounded accusations and are terribly rude to others - that is their own personality problem and disorder, no one elses'. |
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Zola6666
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Redoing two exams for an entire first-year class of 200+ students is just a 'blib'? I'm sure your colleagues who had to re-grade all the tests would not call it a 'blib'. |
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kuberkat
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
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Location: Oman
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| Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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This may be coloured very darkly by my end-of-semester melancholia, but the following phrase about an exam leak really struck me:
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What was interesting was that there was no real difference in the level of marks between both sets of exams.
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The implications are horrifying. |
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Duffy
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