ALEKS Intermediate Algera Question

[sanantone]

I always enjoy the game people play by saying Mathway helps. It's a calculator. It's doing the problems for you. Let's not make it sound so wonderful, it is what it is. Can't we just all be honest and say "hey, use mathway, you'll be done with the class in 24 hours without learnng how to do jack squat"

I didn't learn anything from ALEKS because the process was too tedious. I ended up watching a 13 hour series on College Algebra and took notes. I just didn't have the attention span to spend 50 hours or more working on ALEKS. If I would have known about the Khan Academy, I would have used that too.

Anyway, one can get the 70% required for ALEKS and know less than half the algebra curriculum one would learn in a course or reading through a textbook. You only need to get a 70% on 25-35 questions. Does that cover the whole range of algebra or any other ALEKS subject? It's the same with CLEPs and other tests; you can read IC flashcards and learn barely enough just to pass the test. On some of the tests, you don't even have to get 50% of the questions right in order to pass. How many people read textbooks cover to cover in order to pass CLEPs and DSSTs? If people were doing that, this company wouldn't even exist. Is that unethical, too? Is it ethical that people often guess their way to a pass? With a pass in hand, they are claiming to be proficient in a subject when they really aren't.