Grading and politics

[rachel83az]

Even Sophia courses have "instructor bias" in courses that have no instructor interaction! One of the reasons why Ethics and US History II at Sophia are so difficult for students is because of the instructor bias in the questions. Bias that isn't really supported in the reading material that Sophia has provided. I wouldn't even say that it's liberal bias or conservative bias, it's (to my mind) someone who is trying to be completely neutral and failing miserably at it. It feels like someone who is conservative and trying to make liberal-leaning questions but it could just as easily be someone who is liberal and trying to make more conservative-sounding questions. I don't remember specifically why I felt that way but it did make going through some of the courses a bit more challenging than they would otherwise be. On various questions, you have to guess what the instructor wants you to put in, not what makes sense based on everything you've read.