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- From: john@phobos.sscl.uwo.ca (John Tucker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: Re: Using programmable calcs in exams
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.144510.8587@julian.uwo.ca>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:45:10 GMT
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- UWO has had (in courses I've taken) several different policies and problems
- have arisen
-
- 1. Engineers are required to own HP48's.
- -this happened a few years back and profs have adjusted their exams to
- reflect this (average on first year calculus is still mid fifties)
- 2. Statistics/Actuarial science doesn't allow programmables at all.
- -last year on a numerical analysis exam, a student protested that some
- classmates had programmed the entire exam into their calculators (very
- easy to do, although I didn't have my HP then :-)
-
- 3. Stats/Act Sci states that the only acceptable calculator is the equivalent
- of the SOA calculator.
-
- Several of my own points of view on this
- a. I learned RP to use my HP (which was required for the engnrng math I took)
- so why should I be punished?
- b. I was allowed to use my HP after agreeing to clear the memory before the
- exam (I archived everything to PC)
- c. Shouldn't a distinction between 'programmable' and 'programmed' be made?
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- jtucker@uwo.ca John Tucker
-
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