[etni] Fwd: re: More on cheating
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From: Adi Orian <austenorian@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: More on cheating
In short, you are saying what Marlene has said - R-E-S-P-E-C-T....
Jennifer wrote:
> I just have to add a story of my own, after Shoshana Sibert’s posting.
>
> Many years ago I was given one of those ‘no-hope, just-keep
> them-quiet’ classes – a tenth grade of 16 pupils who could either
> barely read, or not at all; they didn’t expect to learn anything;
> after all they had learnt much up to then.
>
> How I went about turning them into a proper class, learning, doing
> homework and exams is another story. However, I once mentioned that
> in my schools in England (private or what we call public), we worked
> on the honour system; exams were handed out and the teacher left the
> room. Of course they found this uproariously funny, but I explained
> to them that it was really fun knowing that, whatever your mark, you
> knew it was your very own, so that even a 30 or 40 meant that you knew
> 30% or 40% of what you had to. The only real failure, I explained,
> was if you got 0.
>
> To cut a long story short, they got all enthusiastic about the idea,
> and said they wanted to try it. I said they could have as much time
> as they liked. We went ahead. I gave out the exam and left the room.
> Yes, of course I eavesdropped and peeked through the crack in the
> door! They was absolute silence. When I came to mark the exams, the
> marks were between 45 and 60 something, but they were absolutely
> thrilled. They insisted on going on like this, and their marks
> gradually got higher and higher, together with their self-esteem.
>
> The end of this story is that they all took their 3 point bagrut in
> the days when the 3 point was the only exam one took (no modules) and
> was considerably more difficult than today. I couldn’t have been more
> proud of them
>
> True, this was a class that nobody in the administration cared about,
> and there were only 16 of them, but I still believe that the same
> thing can be done, particularly if one starts in the lower grades.
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