Blog Topic # 3: Decision Making
Well on Monday’s class activity on decision making process I have used the accommodation behave to handle the chaos. Accommodation meaning allowing others to decide for you when your interests are not critical to you. I have chosen that because I was kind of happy with my grade. So therefore I let my fellow classmate decide what changes they want to make on the second exam that will benefit them or help them to get their desire grade in this class.
Well that doesn’t mean that I didn’t bother to do anything. I have participated through the entire decision making process in order to finalized the bill with 100% students agreement. I was agreed on some proposals and disagreed on some to get the best result possible. So after discussing about it with the entire class; I believe we have came to better conclusion on how we want our 2nd and 3rd exam to be.
Yes I have seen students using other methods such compete to win and compromise but I haven’t seen avoidance. Everybody cooperates to get to best solution. It was possible because we all value the reward and therefore we effectively use the scarce resource.
I used a similar behavior when participating in the decision on what to do with the first and second exams. I used the accommodation behavior because I understood that other students were in a lot worse of a position after the first exam then I was. Obviously, I could have done better on the first exam, but I wasn't completely disappointed with the grade I received. After the curve, I had an "A-," so anything over and above that was an added bonus to my grade. I think we did an "okay" job with the decision, I was honestly surprised that we were able to get 100% agreement. I also observed some students taking the "compete to win" behavior specifically over the idea of the essay. I was surprised that only a handful of students that wanted the essay were able to overrule the majority in the class. Communication is one of the most important factors in the decision making process
ReplyDeleteI was actually really surprised at how the results turned out. I'm glad that we had 100% agreement, but like Mike mentioned above me, those few students who were in favor of the essay caused such a conflict between the class. Unlike you, I opted for the "compete to win" approach––my grade really wasn't that bad to begin with, but being an overachiever I wanted to do better. However, towards the end I saw that the pro-essay people were persistent about keeping the essay, so I decided to compromise so that we would get at least something out of the hour spent arguing and bickering to come to a decision.
ReplyDeleteI behaved towards the situation the same exact way you did. I think what might have motivated the class to compromise in the end were the few fellow students that raised their opinions about pushing our professor's limits and the fact that class was about to end soon.
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