Focus Groups — on WebAssign
I Like WebAssign. You know when you get it right. ... You can do homework anywhere; you can do homework in advance. You don’t have to be in class to get the assignment.
"If you get something wrong, that forces you to go back and redo it–I know I did something wrong. Doing something more than once allows you to learn the material instead of just doing it and getting it done and going on to the next thing.”
"Most people after they had gotten the homework back, half the people read the comments, half the people just flip through the grades and say "Ok, it’s done and over with." You don’t tend to really go back and look at your old homeworks until test time. I guess [with] WebAssign, you are not given comments. You are forced right there at the moment to learn that material in order to go on to the next assignment. If you are forced to learn each homework assignment, once you get to the test, you are not forced to go back a month ago to try to learn something you should have learned."