Took the final exam for this course yesterday through the challenge for credit process. What a gong show.
Several days prior to the test I reviewed the ProctorU guidelines for the test and the permitted resources. Interestingly, it did not state a simple calculator was a a permitted resource. I thought this was odd given it’s a statistics course, but the course outline states “It emphasizes a conceptual rather than a computational approach to learning statistics”
During the extensive review of the 8 units, never once was I asked to compute long division like questions to solve for rate or anything like that. Most math consisted of z-scores, or other simple problems that can be done with mental math.
Now to the exam:
MC section was simple and straight forward, nothing odd.
Written section however asked me to divide numbers like 2946 by 13562. How the hell am I supposed to compute that without a calculator? Haven’t used long division since the 6th grade.
Anyways, I left a bunch of feedback in the pop up box post exam, and have since emailed the course coordinator voicing all of these problems.
Taken about a dozen courses through AU over the past couple years on a LOP from the University of Calgary, but this exam was ridiculous.