This article was first published in The Chronicle of Higher Education and is republished with permission of the author and The Chronicle. For the first …

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This article was first published in The Chronicle of Higher Education and is republished with permission of the author and The Chronicle. For the first …
This post is republished from the author’s blog, with permission. Original text is available at http://etale.org/main/2017/12/09/10-steps-to-more-humane-final-exams/ As this is the time of year when teachers …
Anyone teaching in higher education is familiar with the debate around end-of-semester student evaluation. Student participation is often low, student perceptions of the utility of …
I always ask myself this question: am I really fairly and effectively assessing my students’ learningoutcomes by examinations? The answer never fails to put me …