The story of challenges and solutions during an urgent reorganization of an on-campus course in Informatics to off-campus during the pandemic in the spring of 2020. (Video, 28 mins., Swedish language.)
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Tips: Length of the text in the take-home exam
The assessment of whether a student has reached the examination requirements in an exam of the essay type normally refers to the qualitative value of the solution, not the quantity. For reasons of assessment, we still often set an upper limit (and sometimes a lower limit) in the number of words/number of pages for the solution. This influence students’ focus to shift from quality to volume.
Continue reading “Tips: Length of the text in the take-home exam”Tips: Exam questions based on short case descriptions
The goal here is to influence study strategies to involve more in-depth learning by use of short case descriptions. As a beneficial side-effect, systematically constructed case descriptions can be used to function as the basis for a large and useful material of examination questions.
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Overview of advantages and disadvantages of oral exams online. And some strategies for good questions.
Continue reading “Tips: Oral exams online”Tips: Vary the context of the question. An example.
How do one design exam questions that can be varied to make plagiarism more difficult, but still test students in an equivalent way? An example.
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