Zabren

Nope. AI, turns out, is incredibly hard.

http://xkcd.com/1425/

I definitely enjoyed reading that one.

In math the answer essentially is either right or wrong, there is not much gray area in test answers.

While yes, the answer is essentially right or wrong, I would not agree that there isn't much gray area.

If your talking standardized tests, sure, I'll agree with you. One right answer, don't give a fuck what you put, if its wrong, its wrong.

The thing about math, though, is that it builds on itself. If I'm in calculus, and I miss a negative, yes, my answer will be wrong. But in calculus, your not really being tested on how you understand your algebra, your being tested on if your calculus is right or not. So I would contend that it is incorrect to count the entire problem wrong, but to instead to give partial credit.

In math, we ask students to solve problems so we can see their process. Not necessarily so they can get the correct answers every time, though that is much preferred.

I personally don't think this is hand holding. You still penalize students for not being correct, but you give them points for what they did right.

In high school, I was the kid that sat in the back of the room dicking around, never doing homework, then doing decent on tests. Considering the homework was graded, my grades were in the B/C range, but my test average was 95+.

I've been thinking lately about how high school could have better prepared me for college, and I've come to a conclusion. I feel that schools should exist to push students. In my case, I had a B/C average, but quite obviously was bored out of my mind. I coasted hard. If my high school had recognized my boredom (which they did) and acted on it by putting me in harder classes (they didn't), that would have been ideal.

And then college struck. I failed bad. Like, took calc A twice, calc C twice, failed freshman comp, and a few more classes. If only high school had pushed me into working, I would have been much better prepared for college.

Don't take this as me diverting blame: I know I fucked up. I should have tried harder in HS.

Now, starting year 5 as a math/computer science double major, making As consistently. It took me a few years, but I got there!

Well, googling "UKUSA" "Echelon" and "Shaynet[et] 13" right now.