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(Unverified)Jan 18th 2008 9:32AM
I just failed the bulk of my physics students on a project because all they did was Google up a commercial design and give a book report on it. Grades can only go so far. When students are happy (or at least will go along) with the grade they get, that's the end of the motivation. The problem is two fold -- students don't know what to do in an independent project (because they never had to do it in high school), and they've come to rely on Wikipedia and the like to enable them to throw something acceptable together at the last minute. It was permissible in high school, and they actually get offended when their grade suffers.
(Unverified)Jan 18th 2008 9:36AM
And having said that, I should also say a couple of other things. First, in my astronomy class, I do allow the use of Wikipedia et. al. to generate ideas and identify resources for projects. But by the time they hand in the final version, they'd better be relying exclusively on primary sources. Second, students are less motivated by grades when there are many components of a course that go into a grade. When I incorporate exams, recitation, labs, homework and projects into a course grade, it is easy to convince oneself that it will be ok to let one component slide and make it up elsewhere. That never works, but it always happens.