Easier for the tenured (unionized, IOW) profs to throw out the question than to smoke out why half the class got it wrong and correct the teaching problem.
Don’t get me wrong I would have flunked this test, but I thought I’m not that school smart. Now after being next to these kids I felt like I was a Yale grad and how some of them failed the class was beyond me.
Some of them sat there with their laptops on Facebook instead of taking notes.
it was a shock to me after being out of school for nearly 3 decades.
LOL Just showed my 13 year old daughter and the first thing she said was “there is no multiple choice”.
Very often the reason why half of them get something wrong is the students don’t care enough to pay attention or to study, or it was a detail that required a fair bit of attention and study. If a good fraction get it right, it helps to introduce gradation into grading.