D426 – Data Management - Foundations

D426 Data Management - Foundations

Colleges: School of Technology

This dataset includes only posts filtered for negative sentiment. Counts reflect discussion volume (posts), not students, and do not measure satisfaction.

Reported difficulty posts
5
Negative-sentiment posts
16
Recurring patterns
3

Recurring patterns

Assessment materials misaligned with learning activities

4 posts Common theme Search posts

Course study materials (Zybooks, red doc, GitHub resources, preassessment) do not align with the Objective Assessment and fail to cover OA topics, leaving students unprepared.

  • I was forced to go through the stupid DRYbooks that I feel taught me absolutely NOTHING... I know LESS than what I did when I initially took the OA... I had to waste time reading the Zybooks and Learning NOTHING, before I could even schule the next Re-attempt... I am not even clear on what I should know verses all of the fluff! Mind you I passed the PA.

    Open post

  • [...I will state that I'm not a big fan of the Zybooks and I don't find their resources to be too helpful or to prepare you for testing... even after reading the Zybooks 2 or 3 times I'm still playing the guessing game... Every class I took that has an OA I've failed at least once or twice, it's infuriating with the lack of preparedness...]

    Open post

  • [...], but even with all that, there were still eight or so questions on the OA that those didn't cover.

    Open post

Platform, CI, or deployment failures

1 posts Common theme Search posts

Testing platform malfunction (FORBIDDEN error) allowed the student to continue the exam despite the error and the failed attempt was not removed.

  • The school even admitted that I encountered a "FORBIDDEN" error and shouldn't have been able to move forward with the test, and I still failed by literally a few questions, and they won't erase the attempt.

    Open post

workflow_or_policy_barriers

1 posts Common theme Search posts

Mandatory remediation (DRYbooks/Zybooks) required before retakes is ineffective, contains irrelevant content, wastes student time, and blocks timely progress.

  • I was forced to go through the stupid DRYbooks that I feel taught me absolutely NOTHING... I know LESS than what I did when I initially took the OA... I had to waste time reading the Zybooks and Learning NOTHING, before I could even schule the next Re-attempt... I am not even clear on what I should know verses all of the fluff! Mind you I passed the PA.

    Open post

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