"If I only learned one thing from teaching it is that, if there is the LEAST bit of ambiguity in a question, the students will find it, grab it and use it to try to justify ANY answer as being correct." Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician Absolutely right. Years of teaching pre-med chemistry and nursing made me extremely careful to have my questions read ahead of time by someone who didn't know what the professor (me) was thinking and could see the ambiguities better than I could. Teaching is wonderful for humbling the ego. My favorite confusion of this kind came from an instructional videotape for which I had done the first reading and had seen no problems. The instruction said "Use the on-off button to turn off the machine when you're done." At the end of one afternoon, we went in to find the spectrometer still running and the on-off button (push for on, push again for off, although we hadn't said so) neatly unscrewed from its threads and placed on top of the machine. We redid the instructions. Dorrie Bell Boston, MA _______________________________________________ caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
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