What alternatives are there to written final exams for undergraduate courses?
As methods of pedagogy have changed in a number of academic fields over the years, alternative forms of final assessment, such as final projects or papers, have increasingly been substituted for a traditional, three-hour written final exam [see http://teaching.berkeley.edu/finalsalternatives.html ]. The new COCI procedures for approving new courses or for making changes to existing courses recognize that such methods of assessment are not exceptional or unusual and may indeed be preferred in many disciplines, as explained below.
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- What alternatives are there to written final exams for undergraduate courses?
