Tag: assessment

  • The Return of the Oral Exam to American Universities

    I’ve been doing some reading into the long tradition of the oral exam, something we’ve given up on in the United States. In many other countries the oral exam isn’t just normal, it’s expected. Some countries even require an oral exam to graduate from university. The standard format is a series of questions that are…

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  • Grades are the Finger, Look at the Moon!

    “Finger pointing at the Moon” is a famous koan that has been rewritten and offered so many times that the search for the origin of this early teaching lesson might as well be lost. As a koan we can accept it as a case that is worth our investigation, a case that everyone must investigate…

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