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Comments on: My “Tirade Against Exams” https://www.didyoulearnanything.net/blog/2012/04/30/my-tirade-against-exams/ An archived blog about education, language, peace, and other fine things Mon, 26 Jun 2023 19:09:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Michael https://www.didyoulearnanything.net/blog/2012/04/30/my-tirade-against-exams/#comment-1828 Sun, 06 May 2012 11:38:15 +0000 http://www.didyoulearnanything.net/?p=2210#comment-1828 In reply to Lori.

Thanks, that’s a very good point! You’re totally right of course, cheating might even be the worst intervening factor of all.
It just serves to underscore how meaningless the results of the whole system are, and considering the serious strain they put people under, I just don’t see how anyone in their right mind could think it’s worth it!

]]> By: Lori https://www.didyoulearnanything.net/blog/2012/04/30/my-tirade-against-exams/#comment-1827 Sun, 06 May 2012 11:18:55 +0000 http://www.didyoulearnanything.net/?p=2210#comment-1827 my favorite is “Replace some exams with real work.”

one thing you don’t mention is the rampant cheating that goes on, which makes exam results even more skewed, and really cheats the students who don’t cheat — because they spend so much more time preparing and then take their chances with their grade. i have a professor friend who laments that s/he is unable to expel students for cheating any longer — it is so rampant and, at some level, expected by the administration, that she is forced to allow them to continue in the program. if they left, of course, the university would be out their tuition.

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