Several strategies for making take-home exam questions: Putting questions in context, making them individual-related, or more complex.
University pedagogical center at Örebro University suggest strategies for converting exam hall exams to take-home exams.
Three strategies are suggested, explained and illustrated with examples:
- If a question is intended to test factual knowledge, it should be put in a context, which the students must take into account when formulating their answer.
- Include the students in the question, so that the answers cannot be taken directly from the course literature. Write the question so that the students may make decisions, make choices and use their own experiences in the answer.
- Give “the answer”, e. g. how two phenomena are related, and ask students to explain why this is so.
- Converting an examination in exam halls to a remote take-home exam or other remote take-home assignment (University pedagogical center at Örebro University)