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From: der Mouse <mouse_at_Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Date: Wed Jun 23 10:51:32 2004

>> I don't like to test memory.
>> My tests are all open book [...] open notes [...]
> Couldn't agree more. In "real life" you normally have access to
> books/manuals/notes when doing things.

Me too. I taught Operating Systems one semester at McGill, and my exam
was open-everything; I did my best to design the exam so it required
thought and awareness of principles rather than regurgitation of
memorized information. I even included a joke (clearly marked as zero
points, to be sure) as the last question on the final. (The course was
unusual in some other ways, too.)

The students seemed to split into two camps: one was "whoa, man, this
is strange and different, I don't like it" and the other was "whoa,
man, this is new and different, give me more". Practically nobody
seemed to feel any other way about it.

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