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Tips: Careless essays with “formal errors”

Examining essays create troublesome extra work for tutors and examiners when the essay is carelessly proofread, with formal errors of various kinds. Here is an example of how to use a checklist to support students’ proofreading, reduce extra work for the teacher and get better essays.

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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.

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Tips: Discourage from cheating through a scary, mandatory declaration

Research in the field of Behavioral Economics shows that the tendency to cheat decreases when you are forced to explicitly state that you have not done so, especially if the declaration is made first, before submitting something.

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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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