10 Unterstützer*innen unterhalten sich über Petitionen im Zusammenhang mit Nursingstudentsupport!
When looking for a school I was looking for somewhere that was uplifting and encouraging and wanted their students to succeed, this is partly why I chose Arizona College. This change has made myself and many other students feel as if the college no longer has our best interest at heart. I have multiple friends going to other programs throughout the state and even the country, and they all are surprised that we would be graded, and heavily, on this. Nursing school is already stressful, we shouldn’t be looking for ways to make it unnecessarily more difficult.
Nursing school is hard enough with learning to adapt and having to adjust on the fly. Exams should be the one thing we are worried about. Taking cms on content that is not taught and it effecting our grade by 20 percent is beyond cruel. With this new outline it can take a passing grade to failing in one test. I do agree that cms is a pivotal part of the program but not at this cost.
The ATI grading change has become unrealistic in terms of obtaining high scores on all assessments, which all drastically influence our grades. These now dictate whether students pass or fail a course and adds unnecessary stress to our lives while seeming like a cash grab from the school.
The additional ATI assignments/proctored exams are becoming too much. Our work load has increased significantly, we have 9 clinicals, simulations, and that doesn’t even include studying, work, and/or our families. When would you like us to find the time to prepare and study for these proctored exams? I understand they’re not graded like exams, but they’re dropping people’s grades significantly.
I wanted to voice concern for my fellow students and myself about the new ATI practice assessment grading. I am not understanding why the grading is so off base what ATI scores reflect. The recommended cut scores for a level 3 in Peds is 78% however the grade you get for achieving that level 3 at 78% is only 20 points. The national average for a level 3 scored at least a 78% is only 11%, so the expectation to get above a 90% seems highly unattainable for almost all students especially since it is taken early in the semester when much of the material has not yet been covered in the course. The grading for the proctored assessment makes sense of achieving points based on the level you achieve and i understand that grading system. I am overly concerned because ati is now 20% of our grade and professors place very little to no emphasis or concern about these exams and including ati prep into the busy curriculum we do that follows FA Davis.
The ATI tests have information that we have not learned yet and the remediation bracket grading doesn’t allow you to get as many points as you would if they just gave you your test score. It’s weighted so heavily that it is tanking everyone grades. Not sure why a college would willingly tank all of their students GPAs who otherwise excel at this program. Disappointed is an understatement.
Students grades are being affected for ATI practice/proctored exams with material that has never been discussed or covered in the course. They should only be getting tested on the material that has been reviewed/covered. Students already put in a lot of time, money and effort into nursing school, and they should not have the additional stress of studying extra content for ATI when there is barely enough time to study the content for their class
Ati is supposed to be a place to learn new thing we are unfamiliar with. To have this be a much bigger impact on our overall grade is extremely unfair and makes us as students even more stressed out than we already are. If Ati is what determines now if we pass a class or not just as much as exams, this is going to cause a negative effect on schools and can significantly lower passing rates.
This semester, the abrupt and unannounced revisions to ATI have created significant challenges for students trying to navigate their coursework. The stricter framework introduced by ATI has made it nearly impossible to prepare effectively for class exams, as the content we are being taught comes from both ATI and FA Davis, which often present conflicting or inconsistent material. Without prior warning of these changes, we have struggled to align our study efforts with exam expectations, leaving us in a constant state of uncertainty. This lack of clarity has not only hindered our ability to study efficiently but has also added unnecessary stress to an already demanding academic environment.
To change the grading system of ATI when we are being tested for things we have not learned is not fair to us. If the grading system is going to be the majority of our percentage we got ok the ATI exam then it needs to be on content we have already learned not content that we don’t know yet.