Timeline for What are strategies for minimizing student questions during exams?
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| Oct 23, 2017 at 23:08 | comment | added | msb | I wish I could upvote only specifically option 2. Sounds like a perfect solution. No talking/whispering, you get to give the exact reply you want without much follow-up arguments, you can still pay attention to the other students while "receiving" the question (hearing vs reading, which you can do while still checking your problematic students), the student will think about how much time do they really want to spend explaining their question, thus making it concise.... tons of advantages and addresses all OP concerns. I loved it! | |
| Oct 21, 2017 at 6:07 | comment | added | David Z | When I read that I thought not about students wanting to make themselves feel better, but the "converse" (?) fact that if the students need to devote mental effort to deciding whether it's safe to ask a question in the first place, it's likely to hurt their performance on the test. That would be an argument against coming down hard on students who ask illegitimate questions. | |
| Oct 21, 2017 at 1:04 | comment | added | AegisCruiser | You make a very good point in your last paragraph--I believe that a significant number of the students who are asking questions are doing it simply to make themselves feel better, whether or not they realize it. I do try to present a very affable personality to my students, as many of them are already scared enough to be in a math class. Your answer reminds me of the importance of doing this on test days as well. | |
| Oct 20, 2017 at 22:18 | history | answered | Dan Romik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |