Re: crib sheets

2001-04-27 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dennis roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 09:58 AM 4/26/01 -0500, Herman Rubin wrote: >>For the important part, it is ALWAYS appropriate. An >>argument against open book is that they spend too much >>time looking things u

Re: crib sheets

2001-04-26 Thread dennis roberts
At 09:29 PM 4/26/01 -0500, Christopher Tong wrote: >On 26 Apr 2001, dennis roberts wrote: > > > i would put a different spin on this ... if students use the crib sheet > > (which i let them have too) AND have to depend on it TO remember important > > formulas/definitions ... then this works agains

Re: crib sheets

2001-04-26 Thread dennis roberts
each time you use your word processor, you get better AT using it AND its features same holds for a decent stat package the more students practice with it, the better they get with it and the instructor should help them in this minitab for example, has tried in recent releases to enhance the amou

Re: crib sheets

2001-04-26 Thread Christopher Tong
On 26 Apr 2001, dennis roberts wrote: > i would put a different spin on this ... if students use the crib sheet > (which i let them have too) AND have to depend on it TO remember important > formulas/definitions ... then this works against them since, they will then > be spending time on "cons

Re: crib sheets

2001-04-26 Thread RCKnodt
A couple of comments. When a student leaves college and is not in a position (job) where he/she has to use statistical formulas every day formulas are quickly forgotten. What we (at least I do) expect is that they understand the basic principles of the subject and can formulate ideas regardin

crib sheets

2001-04-26 Thread dennis roberts
At 09:58 AM 4/26/01 -0500, Herman Rubin wrote: >For the important part, it is ALWAYS appropriate. An >argument against open book is that they spend too much >time looking things up, but I always allow crib sheets. >This way they know that they will get no credit for >memorizing