On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:32:13 +0000, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > ... When you set assignments the students will usually learn more if > they work in groups. However at some point you need to try and assess > how much they've individually learned. I find in practice that it's > easy to tell when a student has copied someone else without really > understanding what they're doing though. Of course if they just pay > someone else to do it for them then there's not much you can do...
I had a programming teacher in high school who encouraged us to work however we wanted, individually or in groups. There were two conditions: (1) each student had to turn in a complete assignment, and (2) he reserved the right to question anyone about anything they turned in. He observed us working in class enough to know whom to question. I know that a couple of students were busted early on; I don't know how it all turned out in the end. Dan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
