Professor And Student Response To The Daily Quiz

In an academic environment where teamwork is stressed, assessing individual competency can sometimes be a challenge. The benefits of students learning by working with other students is clear, unfortunately any grader of homework can readily identify the members of a particular study group through obvious similarities in approach, and more often through the repeated obscure error. The temptation of the ‘weaker’ or ‘busy’ student to copy solutions without participating in the learning process is often overwhelming. Further, the continual expansion of topics covered in many engineering courses has placed a greater emphasis on student learning outside of the classroom. Students who are well prepared through completing reading or other preparatory work prior to attending class make the time spent in class more productive. Any method to encourage this behavior is to the advantage of the instructor.