Comment by ipcress_file

7 days ago

This assumes that the assignments and the exam cover the same material. That's not always the case.

That would be really poor course design :-)

  • There are many disciplines in which students work on effectively distinct projects.

    For example, the life-changingly-well-designed newswriting course I took in college assigned every single student a different story to spend several weeks reporting out so that we wouldn't all be out harassing the same poor people for interviews.

    • Genuinely interested. What was the final like? This seems more in the experimental science (ok, journalism) category. I may have to adjust my thinking to be more expansive and also include things like "vocational".

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