Afshin Gharib, a psychology professor at Dominican University of California, prefers to give open-book tests. His colleague William Phillips lets students use cheat sheets. After several arguments ...

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Statistics students fared better on the open-book exams than they did on the cheat-sheet test. “I think I won,” said Mr. Gharib. ADVERTISEMENT. Pop Quiz.