> I have been trying something in some classes lately and I was
> wonderingif anyone else did this and could comment. After I give an in
> class exam, the students take the SAME exam "home" and complete it.
> The at-home work is to be done in groups and the students turn in one
> group at-home exam. Each student must write up their fair share of the
> at-home portion. Total score = 2/3 * (in-class score) + 1/3 * (at-home
> score).
>
> I thought this would force the students to go over the exam on their own
> but I found that the groups divided up the work so that those students
> who could do the problems in class were the ones who wrote up the
> answers out of class. If I do this again I will have them each write
> up their own at-home portion.
>
> Any thoughts.
How about doing the take-home *first*, followed by an in-class exam
where students will be expected to give good written discussions of the
solutions instead of the disorganized flailing one usually sees on an
in-class exam that they haven't seen before?
--Lou Talman