This solution is heavily dependent on the material. An intro to CS class where every answer is a few lines of pseudocode might be able to effectively teach the

This solution is heavily dependent on the material. An intro to CS class where every answer is a few lines of pseudocode might be able to effectively teach the material by forcing everything on to the test. A software engineering class that just test your knowledge of memorizing patterns and makes the project where you actually implement real software incorporating the patterns worth nothing would be useless to actually teaching students anything they can use after graduation.