What If Milgram Controlled Student Marks
Evaluating Essay
The two articles “Student Grades and Average Ratings of Instructional Quality: The Need for Adjustment” and “What if Milgram Controlled Student Grades? A Simple Game for Teaching the Concept of Authority” that we had to read and annotate I found very interesting. The game they played and the statistics they showed in the two articles were so true. You see these things happening all the time through school, at home, and even at a work place. At school it tends to be some ridiculous assignment do in a short amount of time. Everyone has experienced it in a home environment rather they were the one of authority or not, like getting grounded. With the second article on relating teaching to grades I can relate to that slightly because in high school I had a teacher that didn 't teach well and …show more content…
This has been done many times and has come up with good results. Students no matter how ridiculous the assignment given to them by their instructor will do it anyway. The game will take no longer than 10 minutes and involves no more than a pen and paper of the students. It is best to do the game after the students have had a few classes, so that rapport with students and credibility with a teacher has time to develop (Winston 2). At the beginning of class the instructor will give the instructions for the assignment and the supplies the students need to get out for it. After the assignment the instructor will talk to the class about the assignment and what they thought about it. The instructor then asks the class if they wanted to do the assignment and all of they shouted out no. The only reason they did it was because a teacher made the request and so they obeyed it. After all of this the students understand the notion of power and that they will obey the request of those who control their grades. Do all students do what their teacher asks no matter how outrageous the assignment may
The two articles “Student Grades and Average Ratings of Instructional Quality: The Need for Adjustment” and “What if Milgram Controlled Student Grades? A Simple Game for Teaching the Concept of Authority” that we had to read and annotate I found very interesting. The game they played and the statistics they showed in the two articles were so true. You see these things happening all the time through school, at home, and even at a work place. At school it tends to be some ridiculous assignment do in a short amount of time. Everyone has experienced it in a home environment rather they were the one of authority or not, like getting grounded. With the second article on relating teaching to grades I can relate to that slightly because in high school I had a teacher that didn 't teach well and …show more content…
This has been done many times and has come up with good results. Students no matter how ridiculous the assignment given to them by their instructor will do it anyway. The game will take no longer than 10 minutes and involves no more than a pen and paper of the students. It is best to do the game after the students have had a few classes, so that rapport with students and credibility with a teacher has time to develop (Winston 2). At the beginning of class the instructor will give the instructions for the assignment and the supplies the students need to get out for it. After the assignment the instructor will talk to the class about the assignment and what they thought about it. The instructor then asks the class if they wanted to do the assignment and all of they shouted out no. The only reason they did it was because a teacher made the request and so they obeyed it. After all of this the students understand the notion of power and that they will obey the request of those who control their grades. Do all students do what their teacher asks no matter how outrageous the assignment may