On the weekend, I read Chris Deneen’s paper “Assessment considerations in moving from closed-book to open-book exams” and it got me reflecting about the time a student needs to complete one. Chris is saying many of the things we are
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Open Classrooms Episode 18: Fabio Zambetta
Open Classrooms is a podcast series produced by the Academic Development Group in Science, Engineering and Health. Each podcast features interviews and stories from our staff who have opened up their classroom doors and shared their practices, innovations and ideas.
Transforming Exams
No academical exercise can be more useful than that of examination. It whets the desire for learning; it enhances the solicitude of study while it animates the attention of whatever is taught. Philip Melancthon, De Studs Adolescentum, fifteenth century