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"The exam included questions from the lectures" When I was a student I hated this practice from some professors.
by Jacobi 14y ago
"The exam included questions from the lectures"
When I was a student I hated this practice from some professors.
- adestefan 14y agoI used to do this to put in at least one or two softball questions. It helped to weed out who was paying attention and helped when deciding if someone should get a C or C+.
- lawnchair_larry 14y agoYou shouldn't be grading then. They are not taking a class in Paying Attention, they are taking a class in algorithms. If they know the material, that is what matters. I also cannot stand this practice.
- jonsen 14y agoYeah, look to Bjarne Stroustrup, he gave all of us C++, no questions asked.
- battosai 14y ago'like'
- aplusbi 14y agoAnd people who know the material should be able to answer those questions without any difficulty. What's the problem?
- sesqu 14y agoI'm assuming the problem is questions like this: Recall the Master Method and its three parameters a,b,d. Which of the following is the best interpretation of b^d, in the context of divide-and-conquer algorithms? Alternatively, the problem might be questions that ask for the state of an algorithm at some point, when the algorithm can be correctly implemented in different ways and one is expected to recall/go back and check the exact implementation used.
- aplusbi 14y agoThose kind of questions should be taken out back and put out of their misery, but I don't think there's anything to suggest that adestefan was asking those kinds of questions.