Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 07, 2016

LOL!!! Gotcha! Hoist by his own smartassery!

Teaching is the best way to make certain you know a topic. Having students write tests is a fun idea.

Writing fair tests is really hard.

My best final exam ever: the prof passed out blank blue exam books, and then said “write a question, and answer it.” The class was second semester astronomy. I got an A-

I think that Caulfield can be very trying.

Poor Caulfied; hoist by his own petard. He just learned that a fast draw sometimes hits something he didn’t air for.

Easiest tests I ever completed were in Journalism my Senior year. Her idea of tests were handwritten paragraphs with missing words that we had to fill in. Words like ‘the’, ‘and’, ‘or’, etc.

That must have been some class of Seniors.

Senior year in English, each row of students prepared a week’s worth of lessons, taught for the week, gave the exam and graded the other students. We got to pick the topic. It was challenging and very interesting.

Surely a teacher would say “try to” not “try and”.

Yes, I am happy for Mrs. Olsen. It is nice to have her show Caulfield how even though he may think he knows it all, that she (Mrs. Olsen) still has a lot of valuable things to teach him.

I will have students write their own test questions (6th grade Science) as well. I do give specific guidelines, and do reserve the right to edit, but for the most part the questions are on target.

As a teacher, I always include the question, “What is the one thing you were ready to answer that I didn’t ask? Ask it and answer it.” on every test I administer.It is amazing how many times the students impress me!

I have heard of two brief tests which were real dillies. The first my father was given: “Carthage wins the Punic Wars and affects history. Expand for three hours.” The other was a term paper in lieu of an exam and came from a friend: “When did Rome fall? Justify." He started: “Rome did not fall; it is still there and is the capital of Italy. Rome fell to Allied forces in 1944, ending the German occupation following the 1943 surrender of Italy. Rome fell to Garibaldi ,,,” and so on back through history. He said he got the only A in the class.

It’s a trap!

Frazz: Caulfield writes a test

OH this will be fun!