At 07:34 PM 12/26/99 -0400, Richard A. Beldin, Ph.D. wrote:
>The only take home exam I ever felt comfortable with was in a business
calculus
>course. I assigned each student a different polynomial of degree 3 or 4.
one can easily do this for something like stat ... i do .... have large
data files that students download AND then take random subsets of data ...
all students answers have to be different ... BUT, that still does not mean
that they will not get any help ... THOUGH i am sure that it discourages
more "help" compared to students having to all use the same identical data
set ....
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educational psychology, 8148632401
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