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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity
Keywords: losers, responsibility, 90%, crap, 98%
Message-ID: <572@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 02:35:57 GMT
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In article <9345@ut-emx.UUCP> nather@ut-emx.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
=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


Thanks, Ed.  Nobody's perfect.  :-)

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