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Tough questions
Topic Started: Nov 5 2005, 11:26 AM (194 Views)
pianojerome
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During lectures, my physics professor sometimes likes to give us a few "lecture questions" - once or twice during a lecture, he'll post up a multiple-choice question on the screen that deals with the material just discussed, and then we all respond using electronic keypads.

2 points for getting the correct answer, 1 point for getting the wrong answer, and 0 points for not answering the question (i.e. not showing up to class).


Last class, he posed a lecture question about 15 minutes into class:

"Are you here today? [Yes/No]"

100% of the class answered correctly.


And then another question, "dealing with what we just talked about," towards the end of class:

"Are you still here? [Yes/No]"

99% of the class answered correctly. :lol:



Usually the questions aren't so easy. :rolleyes:
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***musical princess***
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I hope there are one more than 100 hundred people in your class or someone got so bored that they actually split in half!!

:P

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pianojerome
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There were 98 of us that day (out of 140 people who are supposed to be in class).

One jokester actually answered "no" for that second question. :rolleyes:
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***musical princess***
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WOW!!

Your classes are HUGE!!!!!!!

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John D'Oh
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I always suspected that they crammed so many people in university lectures as it increased the probability that someone, anyone would leave having learned something. :wink:
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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pianojerome
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Just that one and musicology are so big. I think there are about 100 students in my musicology lecture class.

Linguistics has about 20 students,
Rabbinic Literature has about 10 students,
Yiddish Literature & Folklore has about 10 students,
Musicology (discussion) has 6 students, and
Piano performance has 1 student.


:wink:
Sam
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***musical princess***
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And you know, if i was in the right, sober, frame of mind i might ocnsidert doing some sort of graph or statisticy thing but i can't focus enough too. Ah well, such is life.

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When I was in university, my largest class (an English Lit class with a teacher who was rumoured to be the easiest on campus) had just over 200 students in the lecture hall. My smallest had 4 of us. The average, for me, was around 18-25 - but I was in a very specialized program. Most of the Liberal Arts courses at the same university had about 50 students per section. Not a bad teacher to student ratio, as far as universities go.
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