Timeline for Best practices when allowing exam cheat sheets
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| Jan 25, 2018 at 6:49 | comment | added | lucidbrot | @zibadawatimmy wait, there's a misunderstanding somewhere. My point wasn't supposed to be that I cannot write legibly. One of the things computer-written notes make easier is changing them when reviewing them - just what you propose. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 4:56 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | @lucidbrot It is reasonable to expect a minimum adequacy in communication skills, including the ability to write legibly and understandably. And if you are writing something you may wish to come back to, you should train yourself to review your own writing soon afterwards in order to fix the less comprehensible scrawls so that they will be clearer after the immediate context has faded from memory. Now if you have a disability that impedes your ability to achieve that, you could go through your student disability office to request accommodation from the professor. | |
| Jan 24, 2018 at 13:08 | comment | added | lucidbrot | @Wrzlprmft Arguably yes.I don't usually have a problem of reading my writing, but every now and then, something is unclear. But I don't think it's the task of an exam to teach handwriting. Also, a more important reason for me to write my notes digitally is that I can easily keep them and search through them for keywords. About half of the lectures I attend require handwritten cheat-sheets and I scan them all to pdf files to keep them for later use, but text recognition is not yet working perfectly | |
| Jan 24, 2018 at 13:03 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft♦ | @lucidbrot: I sure dislike writing by hand, especially if it is something that I'm supposed to be able to read later. – In that case forcing you to train it seems a good way to increase your happiness during a written exam as well as that of whoever has to correct it. | |
| Jan 24, 2018 at 12:58 | comment | added | lucidbrot | About the 'handwritten' part, I'd like to point out that enforcing it may not be taken well. I sure dislike writing by hand, especially if it is something that I'm supposed to be able to read later. There's quite a few other arguments on both sides, I just wanted to point out that you should think about the option of letting the students type the cheatsheets on the computer if they wish so. | |
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| Jan 23, 2018 at 7:53 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft♦ | @zibadawatimmy: More importantly, you would again give advantage to those who just memorise problem solutions and similar. If sketches of problem solutions help with your exams, some students will memorise them. Depending on the subject, these may not even be a bad thing: After all the skill you (should) want to teach is applying the scheme. What you want to avoid is that they just paste a solution without understanding a thing about or being able to translate this to a different problem. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 7:42 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | One could always specify that certain things, such as problem solutions (or even sketches thereof), are prohibited. Of course you then have to police that, and one day deal with denying a student a mostly-by-the-rules cheat sheet because of some violation. It's then a judgment call if that's worth the hassle (your own time and happiness are important, after all). | |
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| Jan 23, 2018 at 6:30 | history | answered | Wrzlprmft♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |