In article <8464rr$4v1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
T.-S. Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>>Dear Dr. Dallal,
>>I'm interested in your statement about the 'take home portion of the exam'
>>and what weight you place upon an exam that can easily be done with the joint
>>help of other individuals. How do you know what portion of the 'take home
>>exam' is really being done by the student, ONE HIS OR HER OWN, without
>>outside help?
>I don't like take-home exams at all. It's very hard (almost impossible) to
>ensure that each student does the exam alone. It's true even for graduate
>students (I'm speaking from my own personal experiences).
It is not that hard. This holds even in places which do not
have honor codes. My son told me that as a student he even
had timed takehome exams.
On the other hand, it might be well to go to mainly takehome
exams. We do not need closed-book time-pressure exams; they
do a very poor job of measuring either real knowledge instead
of trivial pursuit, or the ability to use it in practice.
BTW, I never had any problems with those exams.
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Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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