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From: sbelcas@hvrunix.UUCP (Sarah Belcastro)
Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics,comp.edu
Subject: Re: How to beat the high cost of text books!
Summary: hmm..
Message-ID: <487@hvrunix.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 88 01:37:20 GMT
References: <1124@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <1809@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Organization: Haverford College, Haverford, PA
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In article <1809@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, coughlij@clutx.clarkson.edu ( Jason Coughlin,221 Rey,84176,) writes:
> >From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
> >Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics,comp.edu
> >Subject: Re: How to beat the high cost of text books!
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> >always be looked up in the real world; a definition can be looked up; a
> >theorem can be looked up; the understanding of what these mean cannot be
> >looked up.
> 
> 	Now THIS is a solution!  And I agree entirely!!  In fact, so does
> my comp sci professor.  All examinations are open notes and open book.  Any
> data structure, any formula, any algorithm already written can be looked up.
> However, his problems are new faces on old people.  One must find the solution
> not just the forumla. 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jason Coughlin,

i prefer the type of tests that my profs tend to give: open-book, untimed.
just no collaboration.  These allow students to schedule them when they need
to and learn new concepts on the tests themselves, or to take as much time 
for a proof as they need.  Of course, i suppose this only works if you have
an honor code like we do.

			--sarah marie belcastro

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