Timeline for Questions asking to check answers to end-of-chapter exercises. Appropriate or not?
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| Jan 8, 2015 at 23:53 | comment | added | zbicyclist | This might be particularly valuable for those books that don't have the end-of-chapter exercises worked out even for instructors, and where self-study is likely because they are texts you might read later in your career for your own research. Gelman, et al.'s Bayesean Data Analysis comes to mind, with only some exercises having model answers. stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 5:33 | comment | added | Glen_b | My advice: start doing it the way you thought, and see how it goes. I don't think we're risking much of great consequence, but if there's a lot of objection, it's not going to be so hard to modify the approach. | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 5:32 | comment | added | Graeme Walsh | @Glen_b Interesting comment bringing to light something I should consider. I suppose the aim would be to provide good answers to interesting graduate level econometrics questions and to encourage, perhaps, even better answers from the CV community. Hopefully I wouldn't be tipping the balance down the road of doing people's homework! With graduate level questions, maybe we'd be over that hump!? Following the outcome of this thread, I'll try one to see how it works and if it's useful for CV. If it's not, I'll happily bin the idea. | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 5:05 | comment | added | Glen_b | @GraemeWalsh There's a constant tension between providing good answers to interesting questions (pretty much the purpose of the site) and avoiding doing people's homework for them (what a lot of students seem to want the site to be, and what many educators really wish it wasn't). | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 5:02 | comment | added | Graeme Walsh | @Glen_b and gung. Thank you for the suggestions. The issue has been on my mind for some time, so much appreciated. I think that posting an answer proper is probably the best way to do it. Now, the next step is for me to learn how to ask (and answer!) "good" self-study questions! | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 4:33 | comment | added | Glen_b | +1 One advantage of OP posting suggested answers as answers is they give scope for people to post "looks okay" as a comment without leaving the Q unanswered, or to post hints, or ultimately a better answer | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 3:03 | history | edited | gung - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 30, 2014 at 16:25 | history | answered | gung - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |