Re: Programmable Calculator Policies

[Brad Shue <jshue@comp.uark.edu>]

> > I now have a policy of erasing students' calculator memories before 
> > tests or to do without the calculator if the students scream.  In 
> > addition, as much as possible, I try to make test questions that do not  
> > require the use of a calculator.  

When I was an undergrad, if you would have cleared the memory on my
calculator you would have killed many programs that I had programed
myself.  Curve fitting programs, graphing programs, etc..  I might have
had to give you a good hard "dope slap" for a stupid move like that.

Why not just restrict them to non-programmable calculators.  Just hand
them out with the test and get them back when they turn them in.  You can
get simple scientific calculators for $10-$15 nowadays.
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