Rogers: Courses: Comments to Outside Visitors

Outside visitors viewing my quizzes and exams are reminded of Zucker's Corollary: "One cannot measure the level of a course just by looking at the exams: an exam that looks 'hard' may cease to be so if the students had been told by the instructor to expect those problems or ones just like them." (From "Teaching at the University Level" by Stephen Zucker, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 43(1996), p.863-865.)

Similarly, one might expect that "easy" questions may cease to be so if the students were not, in fact, told to expect them. Of course, for all you know, students might not have been told to expect the questions that look "hard." Or perhaps they were given advance warning even for those questions that look "easy." The reader is invited to assume the worst.

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