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When professors/schools started getting lazy... so did the students. I did a BA in Political Science in the States, and every single teacher was very concerned
by furyg3 16y ago
When professors/schools started getting lazy... so did the students.
I did a BA in Political Science in the States, and every single teacher was very concerned about cheating... at the same time they were giving out multiple choice tests/quizzes and assigning small paper assignments which were similar for everyone.
I then did a study abroad program in Holland, where nobody was truly concerned about cheating. Grades were based on group presentation of literature in class, class discussion, an a big final paper who's topic you developed with the teacher (and then presented). Final exams, if they even existed for the course, were long-essay format.
You can't do that with every subject, but there's no reason why your students should be able to text quiz answers to each other or re-use another students paper... there shouldn't be any multi-choice quizzes and papers should be individually developed by students with the teacher.
Needless to say I went back to NL for my next degree.
- GeoffWozniak 16y agoI floated the idea of essay questions by the students for a 3rd year programming languages course I taught at university (in North America). I was just about run out of the classroom. Since I was bring paid about $1250 CDN a month and was trying to finish my PhD, I didn't press the matter. Still, it seemed as though students didn't want what likely would have benefitted them. (Or perhaps they knew how to play the current system to get passing grades...)