Re: a different test scoring policy?

[herbgottlieb@juno.com (Herbert H. Gottlieb)]

 (James Mclean) writes:
> I recently had an nebulous idea on a test scoring 
> strategy to discourage blindly applying equations
> match), rather than thinking through the physics.  
> The basic idea is to subtract points when this occurs. 
When I tried it a few years ago some of  the better 
students were apprehensive but it did not seem to
bother most of them. However the porer students,
who had been in the habit of fudging answers to 
get partical credit were devastated and some even 
earned negative scores on tests .

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where we no longer subtract points for guessing 
incorrectly)

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