Critic on Testing Policies at UT

In this post, I'm going to be critiquing the article "Testing policies must reflect campus conversation on gender," written by Ethan Elkins.  This article is about a professor from UT named Brian Lendecky who teaches a managerial accounting course at UT, and instructs its students to sit in "alternating genders when taking a test". Elkins emphasizes how the professors of UT should reflect on their classroom policies and take to consideration on the gender standards they implement. He explains in his article varies solutions to this problem.

 Elkins makes great points in regarding how inappropriate this professor is acting against the UT's policy. He addresses the strain for students who have a difficult to identify as a male or female. This is difficult because "transgender individuals have to go through a rigorous process to legally change their gender", thus making some students appear out of place when being placed "as their birth gender rather than the preferred gender.

Another point with which I agree in his article is the solution Elkins brought forward for testing in professor Lendecky managerial accounting course. For example, one of the solutions is that  the professor can make multiple tests, such as Test A, Test B, etc.  Another solution that Elkins recommends is that the professor can book a larger room in order for the students to take the test, and  reformat the test by asking open- ended questions on the test.

I found this article very interesting in many aspects. However, I do think the author needs to implement a study or reference of students of the same gender who are more likely to cheat. Implementing this data would have made his case stronger, and possibly make the professor change his testing policy.

The following article can be found at the link below.
 http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2016/10/05/testing-policies-must-reflect-campus-conversation-on-gender

Work Cited
Elkins, Ethan. "Testing policies must reflect campus conversation on gender." The Daily Texan., 5 Oct. 2016. Web. 9 Oct. 2016. http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2016/10/05/testing-policies-must-reflect-campus-conversation-on-gender