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Students literally laugh in my class (and roll their eyes, etc.) when I
tell
them they need to spend two hours out of class for every hour in class.
That means my 5-hour class (which includes lab) will require 10 hours
of
out-of-class work if they expect to pass it. I know why they laugh.
"My lowest performing student on exams had a remarkably short log-on time for Mastering Physics - about
a half hour for a 90 minute assignment - yet his homework scores were average or above. He let me in on
how he managed it when he withdrew from the course. He would sit with an advanced student and follow all
the solutions that the better student submitted. Then he would log on and follow the correct methods for
solution with the new randomized numbers. Basically he copied the better student's work but redid the arithmetic"