Voucher Points Encourage Student Involvement
I happened on the idea of giving voucher points accidentally. A number of years ago while I was still teaching math in high school, a student came up with a particularly clever method of solving a mathematics problem. As a reward, I wrote him an IOU good for one point on any of my tests.
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This article appeared in the August 1, 2007 issue of The Teaching Professor.

This article appeared in the August 1, 2007 issue of The Teaching Professor.
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