[etni] Re: fw: Everything you ever wanted to know about: How to cheat
- From: Mitzi Geffen <mitzi1002001@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mggben@xxxxxxxxx, Etni <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:48:12 -0800 (PST)
After despairing of curing my eigth graders of cheating, I devised the
2-student test. I surprised them by handing out only one test per 2-student
table. I told them I didn't care who wrote the answers. They were both
responsible for the content and accuracy and would both get the same grade.
They were stunned, but it worked like a charm. All of the pairs were so busy
arguing with each other over the answers, spelling and grammar, that they
didn't bother to look around to the other tables. Though it's true that some of
the weaker students, who were lucky enough to be sitting next to a stronger
student, made out like bandits, I still had a better picture of what the kids
had learned than the one collective version of the answers I had been getting.
In general, there was a lot of thinking and negotiating going on. The other
advantage, of course, was that I had half the number of tests to mark!
Mitzi
Michele Ben <mggben@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I once had a ninth grade hakbatzah
gimmel class that managed to do
every test together right under my nose. I couldn't figure out how
they did it. Their mistakes were almost identical. By the last few
tests, I had them sit around the class with their backs to the each
other, facing the wall, each at a table alone - every other table.
And they still managed to work together! I don't know how they did it
and they wouldn't tell me. Needless to say, most of their grade was
based on things other than tests - lots of tasks and alternative
assessment activities - but to this day I am baffled about how they
did the tests together!
Michele
On 11/6/07, Ask wrote:
> From: "Adele Raemer and Laurie Levy" - raemer@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Everything you ever wanted to know about: How to cheat
>
> I was looking for something else, and came upon this:
>
> http://www.wikihow.com/Cheat-on-a-Test
>
> Amazingly ingenious! If only students spent as much time studying for a
> test, as they do in their cheating techniques! (Don't let your students see
> this page)
>
> Adele
>
>
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