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From: johng@cavs.syd.dwt.oz (John Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,sci.math,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Student preparedness
Message-ID: <589@cavs.syd.dwt.oz>
Date: 6 Jan 89 01:50:00 GMT
References: <4893@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <6435@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <5237@pdn.UUCP> <2145@faline.bellcore.com> <210@uncmed.med.unc.edu> <541@mccc.UUCP>
Reply-To: johng@cavs.UUCP (John Gardner)
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In article <541@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>
>A fairly popular scheme based on handing out lecture notes is called
>"partial notes".  The instructor prepares lecture notes as usual but
>then deletes about 50% of what's there, leaving empty space.  This permits the
>student to take some notes but not all, and encourages preparation so
>that the student will know what's in the notes.  Pretty useful in a wide
>variety of courses.

You have got to be kidding.  The one course at uni that did that was the
greatest nightmare for me.  You'd be sitting there waiting for the keyword,
be distracted for a second and miss, it waste more time till you realise you
missed the keyword, waste more time trying to cath up, and all in  for each
time you slipped you could 5-6 keywords and end up with very incomplete notes.
You can't prepare off them as they are missing the keywords, it makes no 
sense until you fill in the blanks.  My experience is that this system served
to discourage any interest in the course.
  My favourite course gave out complete notes, allowing me to prepare ect.
As a final note that year was the first and last time they gave out incomplete
notes, and had a failure rate of over 55%!  Thank god I got a restricted pass.

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