MIT教授对作业、学习小组及考试的看法
刚看了一小部分MIT公开课“算法导论”第一讲,看来MIT的学生也真“不好过”,教授关于作业、学习小组的看法让我很有感触,比较完满地解答了一直存在自己心头的问题。我觉得这是很值得看的一段视频,也决定把这段讲话抄下来分享,供备忘回味。
原话及翻译(申明: 资料均取自网易公开课视频)
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Collaboration policy.This is extremely important so everybody pay attention. If you are asleep now wake up. Like that's going to wake anybody up, right?
The goal of homework, Professor Demaine and my philosophy is that the goal of hemework is to help you learn the material. And one way of helping to learn is not to just be stuck and unable to solve something, because then you're in no better shape when the exam roles around, which is where we're actually evaluating you. So, you're encouraged to collaborate.
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Collaboration policy.This is extremely important so everybody pay attention. If you are asleep now wake up. Like that's going to wake anybody up, right?
The goal of homework, Professor Demaine and my philosophy is that the goal of hemework is to help you learn the material. And one way of helping to learn is not to just be stuck and unable to solve something, because then you're in no better shape when the exam roles around, which is where we're actually evaluating you. So, you're encouraged to collaborate.
But there are some commonsense things about collaboration. If you go and you collaborate to the extent that all you're doing is getting the information from somebody else, you're not learning the material and you're not going to do well on the exams. In our experience, students who collaborate generally do better than students who works alone. But you owe it to yourself, if you're going to work in a study group, to be prepared for your study group meeting. And specifically you should spend a half an hour to 45 minutes on each problem before you go to group so you're up to speed and you've tried out your ideas. And you may have solutions to some, you may be stuck on some other ones, but at least you applied yourself to it. After 30 to 45 minutes, if you cannot get the problem, just sitting there and banging your head against it makes no sense. It's not a productive use of your time. And I know most fo you have issues with having time on your hands, right? So, don;t go banging your head against problems that are too hard or where you don't understand what's going on or whatever. That's when the study group can help out. And, as I mentioned, we'll have homework labs which will give you an opportunity to go and do that and coordinate with other students rather than necessarily having to form your own group. And the TAs will be there. If your group is unable to solve the problem, then talk to other groups or ask your recitation instructor. And, that's how you go about solving them.
Writing up the problem sets, however, is your individual responsibility and should be done alone. You don't write up your problem solutions with other students, you write up on your own. And you should on your problem sets, because this is an academic place, we understand that the source of academic information is very important, if you collaborated on solutions you should write a list of the collaborators. Say I worked with so an so on this solution. It does not afect your grade. It's just a question of being scholarly. it is a violation of this policy to submit a problem solution that you cannot orally explain to a member of the course staff. You say oh, well, my wrte-up is similar to that other person's, I didn't copy them. We may ask you to orally explain your solution. If you are unable, according to this policy, the presumptions is that you cheated. So do not write up stuff that you don't understand. You should be able to write up the stuff that you understand. Understand why you're putting down what you're putting down. If it's not obvious, no collaboration whatsoever is permitted in exams...
合作原则:这是非常重要的所以每个人都要注意,如果你在打瞌睡,
课后作业的目的,Demaine教授和我的观点是,
但是有一些关于合作的常识问题,
不过,写作业则是你必须独立完成的过程,这是你的责任。