I don't think even half my textbooks come with the software/tests you say they do. I've gotten 3 CDs in my 6 semesters at college and the professors- if not, the department heads- write their own tests. Yes, we get homework problems from the book, but half the problems are odd numbers anyway which gives us the answers. The point of the homework, as many of the professors understand, is so we get the practice and experience doing the problems and not so we can turn in the right answers. If we want to copy off our friend or find the solutions on the internet and not do it ourselves, that's our own fault and will probably hurt us in the end.
When I was in highschool, which is what this article was talking about, I never got a CD/software/interactive material with a textbook. Once, we had brand new textbooks that did happen to come with CDs, but we handed the CD back to the teacher the same day we got the textbooks. It was just about having the textbook, not any materials/supplements
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I don't think even half my textbooks come with the software/tests you say they do. I've gotten 3 CDs in my 6 semesters at college and the professors- if not, the department heads- write their own tests. Yes, we get homework problems from the book, but half the problems are odd numbers anyway which gives us the answers. The point of the homework, as many of the professors understand, is so we get the practice and experience doing the problems and not so we can turn in the right answers. If we want to copy off our friend or find the solutions on the internet and not do it ourselves, that's our own fault and will probably hurt us in the end. When I was in highschool, which is what this article was talking about, I never got a CD/software/interactive material with a textbook. Once, we had brand new textbooks that did happen to come with CDs, but we handed the CD back to the teacher the same day we got the textbooks. It was just about having the textbook, not any materials/supplements