But in this day and age when homework is often checked but rarely corrected, Tucker said, some students have to get used to the idea.
WeBWorK. Students learn through their homework as the program corrects their work immediately.
If they get one wrong, they can simply try again and again. Now they are expected to solve problems correctly at midnight in their dorm rooms, as well as on quizzes and tests. Tucker, a member of United University Professions, which represents academic and professional faculty at SUNY, rarely lectures this group. When he does, his students ask him to keep it down so they can work on their problems. The 30 students were told at the start that they would need to show more initiative than in a traditional freshman calc class.