From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,abd120a1d5231d28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Dale Stanbrough Subject: Re: Looking for a good Ada 95 book Date: 1996/11/29 Message-ID: <57noj5$j8e$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 201548307 distribution: world references: <56rc87$lbb@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <57i82b$oj4@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <57f6hf$9l8@news.fsu.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 x-xxmessage-id: organization: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jim Carr writes: "Do you require that projects be submitted with a clearly written cover memo / executive summary as well as documentation? Has anyone experimented with a series of projects where a student is required to use a routine from project N-1 that was written by another student, to emphasize the need for clarity and documentation? Does anyone use teams / collaborative learning in their CS classes? " I suspect that almost all educators consider team work. However team work is _really_ hard to get right. Often you end up with passengers in a team, who pass having done nothing much (if they are hopeless, often other team members take up the slack to ensure that _they_ pass). Also on giving them work from other students... what if the work is fundamentally flawed? How do you assess what they have done? Students don't like being penalised because of the failings of other students. All of what you suggest is great - however the devil truly is in the details. Dale