Online Quizzes
Apr. 22nd, 2020 10:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingA lot of professors at my university seem to be getting their panties in a wad over whether students are cheating on online evaluations. Is Our Children Learning, they demand of each other in endless reply-all email chains. I don't know why this is an issue, as I have no doubt that students are intelligent adults who are fully capable of using the resources available to them in order to solve the problems in front of them.
I also feel like, if you're really concerned about "cheating" on online evaluations, then you need to write questions that invite and reward attention and engagement. I was already completely checked out of this semester before it even began, so I'm probably not a good representative example, but this is where I am right now:
- If you were bodily transported to the world of an MMORPG, what's the first thing you'd do?
- One of the aphorisms on writing fantasy holds that "limitations" are more interesting than "powers." If you could use magic at the potential cost of shortening your life, would you do it?
- Finding yourself trapped in a time loop is not ideal, but you might as well make the best of it. If you had access to a 24-hour time loop, what would you use it to train yourself to get really good at doing?
I also feel like, if you're really concerned about "cheating" on online evaluations, then you need to write questions that invite and reward attention and engagement. I was already completely checked out of this semester before it even began, so I'm probably not a good representative example, but this is where I am right now:
- If you were bodily transported to the world of an MMORPG, what's the first thing you'd do?
- One of the aphorisms on writing fantasy holds that "limitations" are more interesting than "powers." If you could use magic at the potential cost of shortening your life, would you do it?
- Finding yourself trapped in a time loop is not ideal, but you might as well make the best of it. If you had access to a 24-hour time loop, what would you use it to train yourself to get really good at doing?
