at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. I've had my attendance checked in first year classes. We had these small remote "clickers" that we used to answer multiple choice questions on tests. At the beginning of each class the prof would give us all a minute to sign in with our clickers. As the summary says, it's pretty easy to get a friend to sign in for you... and answer your test questions.
Here's a pretty solid quote from Alun Anderson, New Scientist editor,
"Science writing used to be slightly apologetic: [puts on whiny voice] "this is all going to be terribly difficult, but I'll try and make it easy for you". Like they've sugar coated something you don't really want to take. Our goal was to really change that - change the people and the ideas - to be self-confident. Science often suffers from this sort of cringe factor - "I'm a boring scientist, you probably don't want to talk to me". My policy was if you're talking to someone else the approach is: "what's happening in science is the most interesting thing in the world, and if you don't agree with me just fuck off, because I'm not interested in talking to you". You had to have that kind of attitude."
Teh article here--> http://www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/notablealumni/interviews/alunanderson/
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at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. I've had my attendance checked in first year classes. We had these small remote "clickers" that we used to answer multiple choice questions on tests. At the beginning of each class the prof would give us all a minute to sign in with our clickers. As the summary says, it's pretty easy to get a friend to sign in for you... and answer your test questions.
Here's a pretty solid quote from Alun Anderson, New Scientist editor, "Science writing used to be slightly apologetic: [puts on whiny voice] "this is all going to be terribly difficult, but I'll try and make it easy for you". Like they've sugar coated something you don't really want to take. Our goal was to really change that - change the people and the ideas - to be self-confident. Science often suffers from this sort of cringe factor - "I'm a boring scientist, you probably don't want to talk to me". My policy was if you're talking to someone else the approach is: "what's happening in science is the most interesting thing in the world, and if you don't agree with me just fuck off, because I'm not interested in talking to you". You had to have that kind of attitude." Teh article here--> http://www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/notablealumni/interviews/alunanderson/
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER !
Why wait until next week, can't they die in a fire now ?