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> they by design don’t provide prior exams Do they reuse past questions forever? That is a bad practice. Each term's exams need to be equivalent but different.
by anticensor 8y ago
> they by design don’t provide prior exams
Do they reuse past questions forever? That is a bad practice. Each term's exams need to be equivalent but different.
- olliej 8y agoThe way to ensure that they’re different is to require all prior assessment be publicly available - if someone having access to an old exam gives them an unfair advantage over people who don’t then that’s bad design.
- anticensor 8y agoI suspected that, and asked for clarification.
- olliej 8y agoOh sorry I interpreted it as a hypothetical or something :) My interpretation of the way US lecturers work is that they may reuse entire exams. Especially as a lot just get exams from book publishers. In NZ (at Canterbury at least) all exams are archived and available in the libraries, and most also as PDFs. All of them. Shelf after shelf stretching back decades. At least back when I was there - maybe it’s different now? Publishers selling exam material as part of their text books seems to be moderately recent