At the recent
teaching breakfast several people mentioned that the requirement to get grades
in quickly actually had an influence on the way they designed the final.
It seemed that professors gravitated to a short answer format whether or not
they believed that that was the best assessment tool for their class.
(Certainly that could be another topic!) Given the weight that finals
seem to have, I wonder if the reasons given for this necessity (grades in in X hours)
really outweigh the importance of an appropriate assessment tool.
I’m
sure that this topic has come up before and I wonder what some of the
discussion has been, both in terms of the policy itself as well as dealing with
it. Comments?
111
(607)436-2297
[log in to unmask]