Being a responsible teacher

I have taught courses at a university for years. Always I have been one of the the most responsible teachers in student survey. Believe it or not, I am the only teacher who gives innovative tests. Indeed, Taiwanese teachers prefer to the traditional tests which require students to memorize. The problem is our students will cheat on the tests, if the test questions do not require students to think. For instance, some teachers ask students to memorize the articles. Rather than memorize the passages, students frequently take the copies on the exams. Teachers know the students will cheat, so they simply "open one eye and close the other." Year after year, students don't drill learning strategies, but they drill their cheating skill. It is easy for teachers to give a test by memorization. They don't need to think how to measure student proficiency. But for me, I want my students to feel my test is fair. I never ask my students to memorize the formula and I never give the test from the exercises. Students can open their books on my exams. I don't mind how many copied notes they will take, because these cheating behaviours are useless. My test is valid and reliable. The results indicate that students' scores are normally distributed from the range 90 to 30.
有時候自己也會為自己辛苦教學的努力感到相當挫折. 因為學生通常不喜歡嚴格的老師, 反而是那些教學隨便迎合討好學生的老師受歡迎. 越好混學生越喜歡選修, 即使根本學不到東西. 只要學期末成績給八九十分就好了. 原來許多大學教育竟然是如此的不堪及墮落. 追求名利的老師, 將所有精力放在論文升等, 研究報告寫的很漂亮但實際教學卻是奇爛無比. 當然這樣的人不會花時間備課也不會管學生到底需要的是甚麼, 上課內容對學生未來是否有用. 反正就教一些自己有興趣的科目, 那裡管學生需要的專業是甚麼. 甚至連期中期末考都要其他兼教老師出題. 題目都是死背的東西, 學生那裡會花時間背呢? 帶小抄比較快吧. 嚴格抓學生作弊的老師反成了學生公敵.我只能告訴學生我知道有很多學生考試作弊, 對其他學生很不公平, 因此為杜絕此風我每次都要花很多時間準備考題, 絕對不會是死背的東西而是要理解, open books考試的雖然要花我很多時間想題目, 但這可能是最公平的作法. 如果您認為出一份考卷可以open books學生就可以不用看書那您就大錯特錯了, 相反地學生必須熟悉課本並且融會貫通才有辦法回答. 這也難怪官校有史以來我可能是第一位出open books的老師了.