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This brings to mind a professor at my university, who used to handout textbooks with problemsets which were most of the course's homework. The problem sets woul
by varunsrin 15y ago
This brings to mind a professor at my university, who used to handout textbooks with problemsets which were most of the course's homework. The problem sets would have answers at the back, but he would misprint some of them on purpose that he could 'catch' students cheating from the back of the book.
I always thought that sounded like entrapment - the assignments I tend to learn the most from are the ones that are inherently structured so that there is no way to copy / cheat on them.
- mirkules 15y agoThis makes me wonder about the times I found problems with the answers in the back of the book. It is incredibly frustrating to work on a math problem for two or three hours, look in the back of the book to see if your answer is right, only to find it wasn't, and then to subsequently find out (from the professor) that the provided answer is wrong.
- Jach 15y agoThat does sound awful. Especially for the students not confident in their answer, finding it's different than the back, spending time trying to get that same answer. I've had times like that where, once I got the right answer, I had convinced myself of the right way to do things and similar problems aren't as hard anymore. In the case of wrong answers, I might convince myself of something that is false. This is why I think grading on work is more important than the right answer, though of course the right answer and right work should be taken into account. If problems are such that little to no work needs to be shown, they aren't worth assignment as homework.
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- william42 15y agoI always hated grading on work in my earlier classes because until the work started to get challenging I could do the entire problem in my head.