4 ms·
That's true, but questions that are difficult to cheat on are both difficult (time-consuming) to create, and difficult (time-consuming) to grade. Which means le
by professoretc 5y ago
That's true, but questions that are difficult to cheat on are both difficult (time-consuming) to create, and difficult (time-consuming) to grade. Which means less time for other stuff, like actually teaching.
- pfortuny 5y agoNot so much. They take time but to me it is a reasonable amount of time.
- lostcolony 5y agoSo I only have experience creating/grading tests as a TA, not a prof, but that wasn't my experience at all. The total time spent in creating a few good, easy to discuss questions, the answering of which would demonstrate understanding, and then reading them, thinking about them, and coming up with a grade, was probably actually less than the amount of time it took to create meaningful multiple choice questions that didn't have any ambiguity, and which weren't easy to intuit the answer even without understanding. Doubly so when we did away with "partial credit" answers, but instead made it so each question was 1 point (or otherwise all or nothing), you had, say, 5 of them, and what we really were looking for was a paragraph that showed understanding (rather than checking off boxes in a rubric of "mentioned A, B, and C"; short essay questions, if you will), an expectation we communicated to the students. And that's aside from the actual project based grades, which were better still.
- tshaddox 5y agoYes, it’s difficult, but that’s why being a teacher is a job.