Re:Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring
by mikepurvis on Friday July 09, 2021 @10:31AM
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I had a highschool calculus teacher who was very explicit about designing their tests on an A/B/C system.
The idea was that the A section was the basic plug-n-chug versions of the problem that everyone should be able to get if you were even half paying attention in class; the B section is stuff that requires a bit more reasoning and analysis, and may have a pitfall or two, but they'll be things that were at least mentioned; and the C section is effectively extra credit— a problem where you needed to have a deeper understanding in order to figure out something novel about it, or like you needed to re-derive something from first principles in a way that was slightly different from what was shown in class, that kind of thing.
And the sections weren't equally weighted; I think it was usually like 50/30/20, or even 60/30/10.
Some people hated this, but I really liked how explicit it was. There was no mystery meat— the whole evaluation scheme was very open about its design and intent.
The idea was that the A section was the basic plug-n-chug versions of the problem that everyone should be able to get if you were even half paying attention in class; the B section is stuff that requires a bit more reasoning and analysis, and may have a pitfall or two, but they'll be things that were at least mentioned; and the C section is effectively extra credit— a problem where you needed to have a deeper understanding in order to figure out something novel about it, or like you needed to re-derive something from first principles in a way that was slightly different from what was shown in class, that kind of thing.
And the sections weren't equally weighted; I think it was usually like 50/30/20, or even 60/30/10.
Some people hated this, but I really liked how explicit it was. There was no mystery meat— the whole evaluation scheme was very open about its design and intent.