Western Governors University - M.A. in Mathematics Education (K-6, 5-9, or 5-12)

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By: Anonymous (In Progress) on October 3, 2008

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Like with all things there are good and bad with WGU.  For the record, I am a very self motivated student with a high academic record having graduated cum luade with a BS from a traditional college after graduating 19th in my class of 350 from high school.  Having established that I am an independent learner capable of carving my own path, WGU has some major limitations.  The graders and the whole system seem to be geared to passing Praxis tests rather than instilling and guiding the acquisition of knowledge.  The whole assessment process is ridiculous.  Comments are vague and unhelpful most of the time.  I often have to supplement learning resources because they are severly lacking... thank goodness for my personal tutor since mentors/tutors/guides will NOT answer any question related to assessment questions..... what is that about?  I don't want to cheat!  But how am I suppose to figure anything out if you won't answer a few questions about the assessment questions?  Everything that the assigned texts teach about teaching are completed ignored in this setup.  I have also had to fight my mentor almost every step of the way to proceed at a quick pace.  Having said that, I do enjoy working at my own pace, and the nugget of information is there to be learned.  It's just frustrating trying to crack the nut every day to get to the information.  Probably not for you if you are completely new to the content material.  It probably would have been a lot easier for me if I had not been quite so rusty with Mathematics.  However, I am still completeing my second BS in under 3 years.  So I do not find it all bad...