Cheat Sheet Or Open Book: Putting Tests To The Test

NPR | Dec. 17, 2012 11:55 a.m.

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Afshin Gharib, a psychology professor at Dominican University of California, prefers to give open-book tests. His colleague William Phillips only lets students use cheat sheets. After several arguments about the techniques, they decided to conduct an experiment to find out which method works best.