Exams, are they really necessary?

2.  There are students who do well during
classroom assignments but get nervous when
writing final exams, causing their minds to go
blank.
 Some other students don’t attend class
regularly and can receive passing grades as
easily as the others. In cases such as this, it
is obvious that they have crammed. This does
not truly measure their level of knowledge.

4. As stated by Linda Suskie –
good assessments, educate
and improve student
performance, not just
examine it.
Linda Suskie, holder of B.A. in Quantitative
Studies and M.A. Educational
Measurement and Statistics

6.  Class Debates
 Short Written Exercises
 Journals
 Real-life Problems
 Reports
 Group Work
 Oral Presentations
 Portfolios

7.  More practical  Time consuming
application of skills  Difficult to score fairly
 More valid  Lecturers may differ
 Room for creativity greatly in their
 Effective for higher evaluations
level thinking &  Do not effectively
authentic learning demonstrate lower
 Simulate the real lever thinking, such as
world recall of knowledge
 Integrate different  May threaten students
skills such as who limit their
reading, writing, learning to cramming
speaking and or doing it at the last
listening minute

8. According to Dr.
William Klemm,
professor of
Neuroscience, the
ultimate goal of
education should
be to teach people
how to think and
solve problems.

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