Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for November 18, 2015
November 17, 2015
November 19, 2015
Transcript:
Mr. D.: There's going to be an open-book test tomorrow. Michael: What exactly is being tested if we can just look in a book for the answers? Mr.: I see your point - we'll have the test, but without your books. Michael: I thought you always said there's no such thing as a dumb question.
The idea works well for things like formulas and so on. The difficulty I saw it create was that students wouldn’t study (I’ll have the book, duh) and spent an incredible amount of time looking for each answer and so ran out of time. The method I used was to let them bring a hand written cheat sheet. The time they spent working on the cheat sheet was effectively their most productive studying.