Re: [OM] test-ignore

[andrew fildes]

Once wrote a multiple choice test where every answer was at least 
partly correct and none were totally correct (and how do students 
manage to do worse than random probability on a multiple choice?)
Now I teach Philosophy where there are no answers and the requirement 
is to answer every question with another question - but it has to be 
the RIGHT question!
It's like I've never been away - sticky blades, best travel kit, 
shonky dealers - deja vu!
Andrew





> You might have enjoyed a test I helped write in college. A friend of mine
> was a teaching assistant for an advanced electrical engineering course. We
> wrote a pop quiz for him to give his students and told them they could leave
> when they completed it.
>
> I stood outside the door waiting for them to leave to tell them that ----
> there were no right answers. Every question was physically impossible to
> answer. They were close, though, and seemed like reasonable questions. Some
> students worked on it for the entire class period.
>
> The date?
>
> April 1, 1979
>
> Some of them didn't really appreciate it.
>
> Tom
>
> >
>  > Jim, still looking for a test worthy of my attention...
>  >
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