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From: nather@ut-emx.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity
Keywords: losers, responsibility, 90%, crap, 98%
Message-ID: <9345@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 17:43:30 GMT
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In article <407@laic.UUCP>, darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) writes:
> In article <9286@ut-emx.UUCP> nather@ut-emx.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
> >In article <548@mccc.UUCP>, pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
> >> =I won't get started on multiple-choice testing ...
> >In my view, there are NO good multiple-choice tests -- the very format
> >precludes its use as a sensitive probe of a student's understanding.

The mail annotation mechanism is far from perfect, and has identified the second
comment above as Pete Holsberg's.  Both comments were mine; Pete was not guilty
of either one of them.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin