Timeline for Why are calculators not allowed in post-secondary exams?
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| May 31, 2022 at 3:40 | comment | added | Ungar Linski | The economic argument against calculators is weak. I mean a course costs at least \$1,000 USD and you can't afford a calculator? Give me a break. At my uni they try to make the same argument about textbooks. So as a result we get "cheap" textbooks that are poorly written and for what? To save $50? Then again the jerks at my school don't respect us enough to think that we actually read. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 6:50 | comment | added | Amy B | @DanielR.Collins I would point out that since they are so cheap (eg 10 for $37.50 - see my previous comment ), you can ask students to pay for them and then if they lose them it will be their headache. No storage required if students own them. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 6:49 | comment | added | Amy B | @DanFox Yes such calculators exist and I had 25 in my classroom that had been donated by a parent. You can google 4-function calculators to see more information. They generally also have memory, a square root function, and a percent button, BUT nothing else. You can get 10 for $37.50 a reasonable price. | |
| Aug 28, 2018 at 13:48 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | "Basic office calculators" do still exist, e.g.: at Amazon. However, the logistics would be monumental. I estimate in my department we might need 2,000 or more to supply all classes testing at once = $10K, plus resources to store, transport, distribute, collect, track, replace, deal with "inventory shrinkage", etc., etc. By analogy, my mother works at a school that supplies laptops to all students, and they need a delivery every single day of new, replacement, to-be-replaced laptops. | |
| Aug 28, 2018 at 13:22 | comment | added | Dan Fox | @AmyB: Do such calculators even exist anymore? Does anyone own them? | |
| Feb 17, 2017 at 17:56 | comment | added | yoniLavi | This could be quite easily addressed by having the school provide the same calculators to all test-takers, and structuring the exam around that | |
| Feb 17, 2017 at 11:38 | comment | added | Amy B | What about allowing 4 function calculators only? These could be easily obtained inexpensively and can't store information. As an elementary school teacher, for certain topics I distributed such calculators to my students. They thought that the tests would be easier but of course they were harder because there was more thinking! | |
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| Feb 13, 2017 at 20:55 | history | answered | carmichael561 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |