Timeline for What are strategies for minimizing student questions during exams?
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| Oct 23, 2017 at 19:23 | comment | added | Sam OT | 2. depends on how long the test is; 5mins could be inadequate. I would argue that 3. is a very bad idea. Often a student won't find the mistake until later on, as @einpoklum says. A blanket 'no questions' is definitely a bad idea. -1 | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 9:08 | comment | added | einpoklum | 1. I've always found it very distracting, or worse, to read other questions before I solve the ones I've already seen. 2. Often you don't know what to ask until well after you've begun working on the question. So, -1. | |
| Oct 21, 2017 at 20:50 | comment | added | JeffE | I've followed the first two steps for years, but I strongly disagree with the third. | |
| Oct 21, 2017 at 13:59 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | +1 for a novel approach to consider even if I may not implement it myself. | |
| Oct 21, 2017 at 0:59 | comment | added | AegisCruiser | Due to the structure of my exams and the nature of the questions, I don't see this approach working especially well. That said, I think it could definitely work is some settings! | |
| Oct 20, 2017 at 23:07 | comment | added | R.M. | As someone who has encountered problems and issues in tests that only become apparent after some effort to solve them, I think this is a rather poor approach. -- Not all issues (by which I mean actual mistakes in question phrasing) are immediately apparent during a brief 5 minute examination. Poor wording or unspecified edge cases can raise their heads in the midst of solving it, rather than being immediately apparent. (For example, due to a typo on one test I took, a calculated ratio which needed to be approximately an integer for the result to make sense wasn't even close.) | |
| Oct 20, 2017 at 22:56 | comment | added | user63725 | I strongly disagree with the procedure. As a student, many of the times I needed some relevant clarification was mid-test, when I was actively trying to solve the question. If the professor refuses to accept questions after the 5-minute period even if there are typos or ambiguous instructions, then the student suffers from the professor's mistake. | |
| Oct 20, 2017 at 22:35 | comment | added | paul garrett | Yes, this is a good procedure! | |
| Oct 20, 2017 at 22:20 | history | answered | magu_ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |