OR he used those ‘shortcuts’ . . . ‘U’ instead of ‘you’, etc.
I was staring at it trying to figure out why “E” was accentuated.
Or maybe it was a test FOR “internet spelling,” and he got marked down *because* he spelled out “you” instead of just using the “proper” form of “u” (also, he spelled out “for” instead of using “4” and so on). He’ll never pass texting and tweeting class if he persists in those old-fashioned habits!
Ooh, Shrug, I want some of what you’re … consuming.
CHIPCHRISTIAN: What accentuated ‘e’? I seem to be missing something . . .
Not a diacritic, just that the font makes E look a bit weird and large, so emphasized somehow.
I don’t see this as referring to any specific category of misspelling. Just a generic “Grr, kids today with their internet don’t know anything.” He got everything wrong, and his score is so bad, that it’s not just a normal F, but can only be blamed on the internet.
“internet” Ha ha ha! These crazy kids nowadays with their internet and “smartphones.”
F for fone spelling.
I got much better at typing while playing MUSHes (online text-based games) in college, so there’s that data point.
When I was back in college I got involved with a MUD, End Of The Line (EOTL). I even became a wizard (programmer) for a time. It’s still going, I check in every now and then.
Maybe it was a take home test and she could tell he used the Internet?
Is it common to have take-home tests in K-12 where the teacher restricts what resources you can use? I had that regularly in college, but I only had that happen once in middle school. I and a few other students who were normally at the top of the class got scores in the 95-99% range, and most of the other students got 100%. IIRC, the teacher threw out that test.
I’ve never had a take-home test that tried to restrict resources. If the professor wanted that, he or she would make it open book in class.
The take-home, closed book (and even timed) tests that Winter Wallaby described were “normal” at the college I attended, but they were dependent on a small, close-knit student body with a carefully instituted honor code. I have never heard of such tests used at any other university.
Kilby: I had a girlfriend at a different (pharmacy) school, who had at least one take-home, closed-book exam. The way she described it, though, pretty much everyone cheated on it (opened their books, and worked in groups).
@ WW – Later, during my first year in grad school I took a dual (grad & undergrad) math class. The professor gave us a take-home exam, and I asked whether it was open book. The students nearby stared at me as if I came from Mars.
I took a take-home test but I didn’t know whether it was open-book or not, so I used my textbook and cited everything at the end. I passed.
The prof in a course I was TAing had a take-home quiz with restrictions. However the question was so straightforward that we only caught the people who got it wrong, so I’m not sure why he bothered. he only way to tell that someone was working with someone else was if they made the same mistake in the same way. (I’m assuming that some other people worked in groups.)
Hey, I was reaching for why the “I”.
On the other hand – the posts above made me think of this – I have to take education courses annually to be able to keep preparing taxes for pay. I picked a school which is online so I can take the courses and tests to show I took them at home. With the exception of one larger test (3 hr) test, I can download the reading material and exam, go through and take the exam on paper and then sign in and post the answers in the timed test period. I am never sure, but is it cheating when I have the course info on one laptop, the IRS website with all the IRS info on another and the test on my desktop so that I can search the course book and IRS books with Adobe to find the answers?
I never realized how much of tax law does not – and has never – applied to clients I have/had until I started having to take these courses, and I choose the ones most likely to teach information that affects my clients -but I have a select group of clients – the youngest is 62 and none have children who are not grown with children/grandchildren of their own and so much of the information/ many of the questions just do not apply.
The three hour exam I also have the reading material on a laptop to search, but it has to be taken in real time with answers online, no take the exam and then transfer the answers as there is no time.
Lots to learn this year.
Oh yeah. I just calculated the last estimate tax payment for a client whose return I just did on extension. Based on last year’s return his taxes (if no change) would be around $56,000. Per the IRS online calculator – $65,000. He is in the hospital and I sent the taxes as they must be filed now, but told him we should discuss the estimate (due in January) before I do the form as he had unusually large income last year and I am not sure that his income for 2018 will be as large.
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OR he used those ‘shortcuts’ . . . ‘U’ instead of ‘you’, etc.
I was staring at it trying to figure out why “E” was accentuated.
Or maybe it was a test FOR “internet spelling,” and he got marked down *because* he spelled out “you” instead of just using the “proper” form of “u” (also, he spelled out “for” instead of using “4” and so on). He’ll never pass texting and tweeting class if he persists in those old-fashioned habits!
Ooh, Shrug, I want some of what you’re … consuming.
CHIPCHRISTIAN: What accentuated ‘e’? I seem to be missing something . . .
Not a diacritic, just that the font makes E look a bit weird and large, so emphasized somehow.
I don’t see this as referring to any specific category of misspelling. Just a generic “Grr, kids today with their internet don’t know anything.” He got everything wrong, and his score is so bad, that it’s not just a normal F, but can only be blamed on the internet.
“internet” Ha ha ha! These crazy kids nowadays with their internet and “smartphones.”
F for fone spelling.
I got much better at typing while playing MUSHes (online text-based games) in college, so there’s that data point.
When I was back in college I got involved with a MUD, End Of The Line (EOTL). I even became a wizard (programmer) for a time. It’s still going, I check in every now and then.
Maybe it was a take home test and she could tell he used the Internet?
Is it common to have take-home tests in K-12 where the teacher restricts what resources you can use? I had that regularly in college, but I only had that happen once in middle school. I and a few other students who were normally at the top of the class got scores in the 95-99% range, and most of the other students got 100%. IIRC, the teacher threw out that test.
I’ve never had a take-home test that tried to restrict resources. If the professor wanted that, he or she would make it open book in class.
The take-home, closed book (and even timed) tests that Winter Wallaby described were “normal” at the college I attended, but they were dependent on a small, close-knit student body with a carefully instituted honor code. I have never heard of such tests used at any other university.
Kilby: I had a girlfriend at a different (pharmacy) school, who had at least one take-home, closed-book exam. The way she described it, though, pretty much everyone cheated on it (opened their books, and worked in groups).
@ WW – Later, during my first year in grad school I took a dual (grad & undergrad) math class. The professor gave us a take-home exam, and I asked whether it was open book. The students nearby stared at me as if I came from Mars.
I took a take-home test but I didn’t know whether it was open-book or not, so I used my textbook and cited everything at the end. I passed.
The prof in a course I was TAing had a take-home quiz with restrictions. However the question was so straightforward that we only caught the people who got it wrong, so I’m not sure why he bothered. he only way to tell that someone was working with someone else was if they made the same mistake in the same way. (I’m assuming that some other people worked in groups.)
Hey, I was reaching for why the “I”.
On the other hand – the posts above made me think of this – I have to take education courses annually to be able to keep preparing taxes for pay. I picked a school which is online so I can take the courses and tests to show I took them at home. With the exception of one larger test (3 hr) test, I can download the reading material and exam, go through and take the exam on paper and then sign in and post the answers in the timed test period. I am never sure, but is it cheating when I have the course info on one laptop, the IRS website with all the IRS info on another and the test on my desktop so that I can search the course book and IRS books with Adobe to find the answers?
I never realized how much of tax law does not – and has never – applied to clients I have/had until I started having to take these courses, and I choose the ones most likely to teach information that affects my clients -but I have a select group of clients – the youngest is 62 and none have children who are not grown with children/grandchildren of their own and so much of the information/ many of the questions just do not apply.
The three hour exam I also have the reading material on a laptop to search, but it has to be taken in real time with answers online, no take the exam and then transfer the answers as there is no time.
Lots to learn this year.
Oh yeah. I just calculated the last estimate tax payment for a client whose return I just did on extension. Based on last year’s return his taxes (if no change) would be around $56,000. Per the IRS online calculator – $65,000. He is in the hospital and I sent the taxes as they must be filed now, but told him we should discuss the estimate (due in January) before I do the form as he had unusually large income last year and I am not sure that his income for 2018 will be as large.