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Student Survey

The following information was gathered from surveying grade 9s in a rural Junior High in Southern Alberta. Previously, the school operated under a yearly system.

  • Variety 

    • Students like that we have options everyday and that they had the same options for a long period of time

    • Students like changing their schedule after the semester

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  • 4 classes per semester

    • Students find it is easier to focus since there was a lot less information to remember.

    • Students like having only 2 core classes to focus on at a time.

    • Students found that having less classes at once made it easier to study 

    • Students like that semester system is more like high school

    • Students like that there are not as many different "things" to remember

    • Students like that the classes are switched up after a semester

Academically, what is your FAVOURITE thing about the semester system?

FEWER CLASSES TO STUDY FOR

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Chance for a change 

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LESS ASSESSMENT 

  • More Work

    • Student believe that with the semester system they receive more homework and often feel overwhelmed

    • Students feel that there is more information to learn and less time to do so

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  • Covering content for four months

    • Students find it hard to remember information from the semester, sometimes the year, before. 

    • Student don't like having the longer classes

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Academically, what is your LEAST favourite thing about the semester system?

FAST FACE

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More work

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Hard to recall CONTENT

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longer classes 

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