Timeline for Suggested idea: Course exams written by someone else other than the instructors/coordinators. Good or Bad?
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| Jun 3, 2020 at 16:47 | comment | added | Mike Pierce | Here's a related question I asked awhile ago, although most of the responses focused on moving the assessment of students outside of university entirely :c | |
| Nov 25, 2019 at 14:38 | comment | added | Adam | I just wanted to note that the "compromise position" has its own merits. That is, where there are a shared core set of questions as well as instructor-specific questions | |
| Nov 25, 2019 at 1:31 | comment | added | user507 | The "pro" list seems to be missing what I would see as the biggest win of all: at the college level, it eliminates the "race to the bottom" dynamic in which students look at ratemyprofessor.com and try to enroll in the section whose instructor assigns the least work and has the lowest standards. | |
| Nov 25, 2019 at 0:13 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Nov 24, 2019 at 21:24 | comment | added | Peter Saveliev | The idea seems fine as long as the course has been entirely standardized. Or is this a path to standardization? Personally, I hope this will never happen to the courses that I teach. | |
| Nov 24, 2019 at 19:20 | answer | added | Matthew Daly | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 24, 2019 at 17:32 | answer | added | guest | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 24, 2019 at 14:37 | comment | added | user507 | Is the purpose to measure the performance of the students, or to compare the performance of the instructors? Both? There are serious problems with using this as a measure of a teacher's effectiveness. (1) They will then have a huge incentive to find ways to cheat. This happens, e.g., in the US with K-12 education and standardized tests. (2) Classes are not random samples, and the sample sizes are generally much too small to make meaningful comparisons. | |
| Nov 24, 2019 at 10:36 | comment | added | Michael Bächtold | For some of the "pros" to be effective, you probably want the exam not only to be written, but also corrected and graded by someone else. I've heard a professor of empirical learning claim, that such a setup would make students build up more trust towards the teacher, which could benefit learning. | |
| Nov 24, 2019 at 4:53 | history | edited | Thomas Kojar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 24, 2019 at 4:45 | history | asked | Thomas Kojar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |