Yes, Matt, I also found that source! Looks like the concept of "means and results" is a French one. I could not find references based in other countries, but I did not conduct a thorough search.
By the way, in my post, the sentence should read "obligation of means but no obligation of result" (no extraneous "and").
Joseph
Hi Matt,
Thanks for your undefatigable contribution to this discussion!
As regards your doctor/dentist analogy, it is important to remember that the medical profession (like the teaching profession), have an obligation of means and but no obligation of result.
Joseph
Matt "Like the Multiple Intelligences hypothesis (learning styles), polygraph (lie detector) tests, multi-billion dollar industries have been built up on them and people have based their careers and livelihoods on them being true, accurate, and reliable."
I would rephrase that as "[...] people have based their careers and livelihoods on making gullible people believe that they are true, accurate, and reliable".
Joseph
Further to these discussions Prerequisite Lesson vs Conditional activities and the second question asked by Wendi in that other discussion: Timer.
1.- Like the Quiz activity, the Lesson activity features a timer. This is used to limit the time spent in a Lesson to a certain number of minutes. The Lesson timer is not as sophisticated as the Quiz timer, as it will only refresh upon student submit action.
2.- In a Lesson's prerequisite features, a lesson (B) can be set to be made available to a student only spent a required number of minutes in another lesson (A). However, there is nothing to tell a student how much time they have spent in a lesson so far (while taking the lesson) nor how much time they have spent in a lesson (when they have reached the end of the lesson). In order to avoid confusion with the original Timer feature, I suggest this would called "Stop watch" or "Chronometer".
I agree with Wendi's suggestion that such a feature would be useful in this case. This might be a similar "widget" to the so-called "Progress bar". Each time a student has submitted an answer/changed pages, a message could be displayed along these lines:
"You have already spent xx minutes in this lesson (A). You need to spend a minimum of yy minutes here in order to access Lesson B."
A more sophisticated feature might even display a progress bar showing the target time and time spent, similar to the progress bar.
Joseph
Hi Derek,
I stick to the view that the best anti-plagiarism tool is the teacher.
A good* teacher should a) educate their students and warn them against the consequences of plagiarism and b) be able to detect plagiarism in the students' submitted work.
Joseph
* But all teachers are good teachers, aren't they?