chaos!

chaos! that is the only way I can describe the class' decision making process. it began with 'compete to win'. if you break up the room into 4 pieces, there was pretty much a leader of each group. each one was trying to persuade everybody in their group to agree with one thing. eventually the 'leaders' stood up to the front and began writing on the board and yelling across the room to get their points across. people who weren't getting their points across began getting upset and aggravated. but then they started to 'collaborate'. they took some suggestions from each other and tried to come up with one solution (which was the whole point!) they 'compromised' when they recalled that there had to be a unanimous agreement.

I personally took the 'accommodation' approach. I didn't do too bad on the exam, therefore anything - just a curve, dropping of the lowest grade, or more specificity on the next exam would be suffice for me. I feel like the people who did worse, were very focused on getting as much out of this as they could, whereas I was satisfied getting anything. knowing what I know now about the pattern of communications, reactions, and results - I still would have handled it the same way, simply for the same reasoning as I had before I knew any of these.