Timeline for Is it unreasonable to change the rules of a quiz/exam one week in advance?
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| Jan 3, 2018 at 6:41 | comment | added | user82849 | I think you are right to stick with the original policy. However, I hope you do institute a modified policy next time by stipulating early that the sheet needs to be hand-written. By writing and condensing -as you had hoped they would do- students are cognitively organizing and learning the material. Merely cutting and pasting and using a smaller font is formatting information, not learning it. The cheat sheet should be condensed information. A 3"x5" index card is adequate. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 12:58 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | @DonQuiKong I believe you can and I believe you did. That's a nice job but by all means a 20 pages text is not a cheatsheet. A cheatsheet is a page or two containing the most fundamental formulas needed for an exam. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 11:20 | comment | added | DonQuiKong | @AndreaLazzarotto my 20 pages did fit on a one-sided din a4 paper. Thats what I said in my comment. If you don't believe that you can write 20 hrs onto a single side, by all means, try it out. | |
| Dec 12, 2017 at 10:11 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | @DonQuiKong the answer talks about a cheatsheet, not a 20 pages essay. One page is sufficient to write formulas and it takes less than an hour to copy in handwritten form. | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 16:25 | comment | added | J.R. | I've been amazed at what I've seen students fit onto a single sheet of paper. Whether you ultimately choose to allow e-sheets or force handwriting, be prepared for some of the more ambitious students to put virtually everything you say in class on a cheat sheet. If you don't like that notion, one alternative I've seen and used is to provide your own sheet. The primary motivation for allowing cheat sheets is making it so students don't need to memorize formulas and such. Just furnish it for them; that way, they don't have to memorize, and everyone is on an equal footing come exam time. | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 12:43 | comment | added | DonQuiKong | "I thought that it would take only one hour to copy your notes from a digital “cheat sheet” to a handwritten one." clearly, you have never done that! I've spent around 15 hours copying 20 pages of notes onto a one sided din a4 paper once, because a handwritten cheat sheet was allowed and a lot of plain knowledge was required. Even if it's not that much, writing - in readable handwriting - small enough to fit the same stuff a computer could, requires time. Hours of time. And maybe a second try because you misjudged the space you had available. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 12:28 | history | answered | I Like to Code | CC BY-SA 3.0 |