A blog to accompany Jim Mahar's finance Classes. It is a bit less technical then his FinanceProfessorBlog and may not be of interest to those outside of his class, but it is fun so maybe!
Friday, November 12, 2010
Friday, November 05, 2010
Financial Rounds: The Unknown Students Nail an Exam
Financial Rounds: The Unknown Students Nail an Exam:
Hats off to the UnknownProfessor!
"This semester, I made a conscious decision to really push my students - since the first week of September, they've two exams, three very involved problem sets (with a lot of curves thrown in - the typical one takes about 3-5 hours to complete), eight online quizzes, and short pop quizzes (they typically last 5 minutes or less and contain 1 or 2 basic questions on the material to be covered for the day's class) on average every other day, and almost constant cold-calling in class (in a 50 minute class, I typically call on 15-20 students). I like to think that I've set the bar at a far higher level than the other sections of the intro class being taught this semester. In fact, some of my students have told me that I've brought the class together - they're getting together in study groups of as many as 10 at a time (and there was supposedly a study group the night before the first exam of almost twenty students).
I've also made a decision to teach in full-blown crazy mode.
Hats off to the UnknownProfessor!
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