[etni] Fw: re: cheating
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- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:54:56 +0200
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From: "Gilda Haber" <hathaber@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: cheating
Great idea.
But how did you know that no one cheated?
Gilda Haber
US
Jennifer wrote:
> I have to tell a story about cheating.
> Years ago, in a school in the south, I was given (who else wanted it) a
> 10th
> grade class of non-readers. The aim was for them to sit the 3 point
> bagrut
> in 12th grade. (This was the time before modules.
>Well, first we learned to decode, and then we worked very carefully to
>build
> up language skills. I never said they would be able to do the bagrut,
> only
> that they would learn a lot of English, and if we got to bagrut standard,
> great. If not, we had still gained a lot.
> One day, talking about tests and cheating, I mentiioned that in my school
> in
> England we had the honour system. "What's that," they wanted to know, and
> I
> explained that th teacher came into class, gave every pupil a test, and
> walked out, tell ing us only the time when the exam would be over. They
> were very excited about this idea, and wanted to try it out. I explained
> that they must be prepared to accept very low marks, even 20, 30 or 40,
> but
> that these marks would be THEIR very own grades, acquired all by
> themselves.
> To cut a long story short, this is how we did all tests, till the end of
> the
> year. Their final test was the unseen from the thne 3 point exam - for
> which I allowed them 2 hours, and they all got between 70 and 80, with
> some
> getting higher grades. You have never seen a class prouder of its
> achievements than this one was.
>Admittedly, it wasn't a very big class - around 16 pupils, if I remember
> rightly, but it can be done.
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