Timeline for Should students have access to past exams or an exam bank?
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| Aug 3, 2019 at 10:43 | comment | added | J W | Thank you for clarifying your thoughts. I see your point of view and respect the firm position you take. My experience in education is that institutional policy and life circumstances can put limits on what is acheivable in practice, in spite of one's ideals. | |
| Aug 2, 2019 at 12:00 | comment | added | Stian | @JW There is no such thing as a lack of time. Time is given to everyone, every day, approximately 1440 minutes of it. How to spend that time is a choice - if you choose to reuse old exams so to spend the time on something else you are doing shoddy workmanship by being lazy. In my honest opinion. I may be alone in meaning this, but in order to be excellent, you have to limit yourself to the things you have time to achieve excellence in. Drop something else or get someone else to teach the class (or write exams). Or accept ineptitude. Sorry for being a pedant. | |
| Aug 2, 2019 at 10:47 | comment | added | J W | "Besides, reusing old exams, by parts or whole, is an abhorrence of lazyness and shoddy workmanship. Be better. How can you be outstanding, if you accept such ineptitude." seems strongly worded to me. Perhaps I have misunderstood what you are getting at, but it is debatable whether reusing old questions (in small doses) is always a bad idea. Also, being pragmatic, instructors may simply lack the time to create a full array of new questions. This might not be a good situation, but lazyness isn't necessarily the reason. | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 22:41 | comment | added | paul garrett | Yes, I do think it is this simple. :) | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 22:32 | history | answered | Stian | CC BY-SA 4.0 |