I insist that they be hand-written. Without that restriction, my
students were not organizing the lecture material but rather just copying, word
for word, content from my online lecture notes, then making the font very
small. I do explain to them that the value of the cheat sheet is
I experimented with the 'cheat sheet' during an abbreviated three week
Introduction to Psychology course a few years back. We offer these
three week/i//nterim/ courses between semesters and they tend to draw
very good students. Whatever, the feedback I received from most of the
students was