I personally prefer open-book exams: they discourage cheating in terms of “smuggling definitions by writing them on a calculator”, and force teachers to ask questions that require reasoning and deeper understanding
Agreed, but there are some levels of study where open-book just doesn't work well.
I think it would be hard to ask any kind of pre-college mathematics questions that don't become incredibly easy with an open book. The other challenge with open-book exams which focus on deeper understanding and reasoning is they still require understanding fundamentals to be successful, so how do you test for fundamentals?
I think it would be hard to ask any kind of pre-college mathematics questions that don't become incredibly easy with an open book. The other challenge with open-book exams which focus on deeper understanding and reasoning is they still require understanding fundamentals to be successful, so how do you test for fundamentals?