Anyone Ever Hear Of A Professor Giving A True/false Test Where The Answers Were Either All True Or All False?

by **Cenewig** » Wed Sep 24, 2014 10:55 pm

I recently read the book, "Curses! Broiled Again!" by Jan Harold Brunvand. It is a collection of urban legends and myths. There were some legends regarding academia. When I was in graduate school, there was a story circulating about a math professor who was leaving shortly after giving a final. To make it easy to grade, he wrote a true/false exam where all answers were either true or false. The legend concluded that the students were furious. Can anybody offer some evidence that this actually occured?

by **Osker** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 1:12 am

well you'll laugh.. but this happens! While taking my Psychology test I noticed the answers were similar to what you say here ..another time it went like this... 1. A 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. C 7. A 8. A 9. B 10. B 11. C 12. C 13. A 14. A 15. B 16. B 17. C 18. C Among other variations... everything was a pattern and if you figured it out for one test.. it was simple to get the next test correct. Same guy feel asleep at the desk sometimes...so it does happen as crazy as it sounds! Enlia 82 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

by **Aden** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 5:29 am

no no but it would be very funny though and i bet its happend more than once but why? the students would catch on and then they would all get A's i dont thing any good peofessor would do it but i bet some bad 1s have Jaseman 82 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

by **Shouta** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:24 am

I once had a teacher tell me about a test where the last question said "do not complete any other questions, put your name on the paper and hand it in" I guess they wanted them to read the entire test before starting

by **Alison** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 1:04 am

Similar I once had a teacher tell me about a test where the last question said "do not complete any other questions, put your name on the paper and hand it in" I guess they wanted them to read the entire test before starting jocelyng 82 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

by **Aodhfionn** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 2:09 am

but this happens! While taking my Psychology test I noticed the answers were similar to what you say here ..another time it went like this... 1. A 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. C 7. A 8. A 9. B 10. B 11. C 12. C 13. A 14. A 15. B 16. B 17. C 18. C Among other variations... everything was a pattern and if you figured it out for one test.. it was simple to get the next test correct. Same guy feel asleep at the desk sometimes...so it does happen as crazy as it sounds!

by **Ashishishe** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 2:49 am

It was not a true/false question but rather a multiple choice question, and the math teacher(it was high school) wasn't leaving, he just thought it would be fun to "mess with us." He forgot that our grades were important to us, I think, when he made the answer to every question "A." There were many rumblings of discontent indeed. In college classes, I have also has professors of assessment classes warn against such behavior, as well as people who did ridiculous things as they were leaving. What you describe may not be an urban legend, exactly, but just a rare occurrence that is very possible when you realize that teachers are not immune to human nature.

by **muireach** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 4:15 pm

Yes, but... Mine is also 3rd hand. I heard of a prof. teaching a Business Statistics class who did this. Supposedly his point was that a general statistical myth(T/F questions tend to be balanced) has absolutely no value, and that one should be careful about one's assumptions. It is also my understanding that he did warn his students that the ratios of true to false answers were not 50/50. Like I said, this was third hand from a physics prof who had been a grad student at the time. legis 82 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

by **Avrell** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 3:58 pm

Something similar has happened to me It was not a true/false question but rather a multiple choice question, and the math teacher(it was high school) wasn't leaving, he just thought it would be fun to "mess with us." He forgot that our grades were important to us, I think, when he made the answer to every question "A." There were many rumblings of discontent indeed. In college classes, I have also has professors of assessment classes warn against such behavior, as well as people who did ridiculous things as they were leaving. What you describe may not be an urban legend, exactly, but just a rare occurrence that is very possible when you realize that teachers are not immune to human nature. reader645 82 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

by **Raynell** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 4:57 pm

no but it would be very funny though and i bet its happend more than once but why? the students would catch on and then they would all get A's i dont thing any good peofessor would do it but i bet some bad 1s have

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