Recently, I’ve been in heated discussions around whether or not we should allow students to retake assessments. I teach both math and science currently, and the departments are in very different places with regards to their stance on retakes. In my math courses, students are
At my school, we’re nearing the end of our second trimester. Consequently, students are starting to see how their grades are stacking up now that most of their assignments and assessments have been completed and entered into our LMS. Our LMS reports the grades
I’ve been thinking a lot about final assessments, and assessment in general, lately. If we started education today, with no knowledge of what has happened in the past, would we still have tests? Tests confined to two hours? Tests full of multiple choice questions? Tests
