In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students’ midterm. It was about the…

  • Euphoma@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    This is something thats kinda impossible in a class that requires technology. A solution one of my professors came up with was having frequent handwritten tests worth less points.

    Programming on a handwritten test is nothing new, but he also made us use gdb to debug a program written in assembly on paper… which did work better than I thought it would.

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      2 hours ago

      I’m old enough that I took my Computer Science AP test in PASCAL in pencil on paper.

      You can absolutely handwrite tests in any subject.

      You can also provide workstations with no internet access for programming if you need an IDE/Compiler/etc.