Mastering default grading is designed to reward honest work. Statistically, students who use hints when they need them get higher final grades even when professors charge a penalty for opening hints. In spring 2013, Barron added MasteringChemistry prelecture homework assignments: short, untimed assignments due before lecture designed to help increase student awareness about new topics and to identify student misconceptions and areas of misunderstanding.

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