how your students can cheat with a soda bottle
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words in the time it took to make the cheat sheet. If that is all I have to
worry about, then I am not worrying.
So what is the point of a cheat sheet? Formulas? I mean, how much can you
copy on one sheet?
When I was in the classroom, the day before finals I gave all of my students
a 3"x5" card and told them that they could each write as many cheat notes as
they could on the card and use it on the test. They spent the entire period
studying to decide what they wanted to put on the card. Usually, what they
ended up putting on the card they had memorized anyway-from the effort of
deciding what to put there and from writing it.
Steve
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Rowley
my teacher certification, tell the class that we could use a 3x5 size
card with all the information that we could put on it - an use it during
a test (essay). We had to turn in the card with the test. It's amazing
how legible printing something at a 3pt font on a laser printer. I think
I got most of a couple chapters on my card. Afterwards the professor
commented on my using a laser printer - I pointed out that his
instructions didn't rule that out. I heard that he since changed his
instructions to include doing this by hand....
Funny thing - most times I've been allowed to do something like this -
I've never really had to reference the information on the card.
Martin
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> I've never really had to reference the information on the card.
Exactly. And look at all of the technology you learned to use in the
process. :)
Steve
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me--seemed like I was the one supplying the answers for everyone else, not
the other way around. The reason I like the 3" x 5" inch card over group
work is the student must do the work his/herself.
Also, one has to do a good deal of study just to figure out what to put on
the card-often times by the time it is written on the card, the person has
learned it. 99% of what is written is the stuff the kid had trouble
memorizing. In real life, they probably won't remember it in 2 weeks, even
if they were successful memorizing it for the test. What I want them to
know is that the knowledge exists and to go look it up if they need it-just
like we do in real life. Putting it on the card shows they can do that. In
addition, even if they record something quite complex, like the Kreb (citric
acid) Cycle, what I will ask on a test is a higher level question that will
require them to understand and interpret the cycle -not just memorize it.
Letting the student us the 3"x5" card a) eases tension on the exam, b)
increases study, c) helps students better structure their knowledge.
Probably not for everyone. I have found it very successful.
Steve
J. Z. Al-Huriyeh
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>Letting the student us the 3"x5" card a) eases tension on the exam, b)
>increases study, c) helps students better structure their knowledge.
>
>Probably not for everyone. I have found it very successful.
I agree about this issue. Take the weight off of memorizations and
you can focus the test on higher order skills.
J. Z. Al-Huriyeh
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> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 12:26:38 -0600, "stevericks"
>
LOL ... I seem to have the opposite problem from you ...I'm alwasy
mistaken for Pakistani ... even on occasion by a Pakistani :D
for the record my heritage is Cuban ;)