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| Sep 8, 2014 at 21:57 | comment | added | David Schwartz | @AsafKaragila That's frequently true and I understand. I admit that this professor's tactic was really more psychological than anything else. He artificially lowered our overall grade by making the tests harder and then gave us the opportunity to make up the difference with homework. Other classes using a weighting system that would ultimately come out the same final grade can "feel" like homework is a punishment or chore. Ultimately, my only point was that since it's nigh unto impossible to prevent cheating on homework, might as well limit it's contribution to the grade. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 21:31 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | (My policy for giving out homework to my students is to make it very very interesting. Last year I was told by some students that they spent more times on a 3 credits naive set theory course homework than they did on a 5 credits complex analysis course homework. And I am sure that they didn't spend that much time just because they had to. I might add that it worked, and the average passing grade was 86/100 or so.) | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 21:29 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | My discrete math professor told us back then, that the only reason they require homework to be handed in, is to ensure that we think and rework the material from class. If they knew we would do that, they wouldn't bother asking for the assignments to be handed in. But alas, if they wouldn't ask for us to submit homework, we would spend all our time and resources working on other courses' assignments and not on any discrete math problems. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 21:14 | history | answered | David Schwartz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |