Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pdn!reggie
From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity
Keywords: losers, responsibility, 90%, crap, 98%
Message-ID: <5313@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 11:40:49 GMT
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In article <407@laic.UUCP> darin@nova.UUCP (Darin Johnson) writes:

>The work either consisted of showing the math, or giving a reference
>or examples.  The nice thing about the test being multiple choice, is
>that you could easily spot simple errors (such as having an answer the
>same as one of the choices, but having the wrong sign).


     I had one guy who would give a test where each of the MC items was
either the correct answer or the answer that one would arrive at if one
made one of the common mistakes in working out the solution!


     Any MC tests that I ever took did not provide room for showing the
work.  The problem with this is that it is an all or nothing proposition.
In addition, because the work that produced the answer is not physically
on the test sheet, when the time comes to go over the test in the class
most people will not remember how they arrived at the answer they chose.
Why is this important?  Because part of testing is to see the mistakes
you made in arriving at the incorrect answer and learn from the experience!
That is extremely hard to do with an MC test.

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