Timeline for Should midterms exams include the most recently covered material?
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| Oct 31, 2018 at 6:43 | comment | added | guest | I'm not a fan of mid-terms because it becomes a mini-final (with no prep time). Also, it tends to be correlated with under-testing. Rather see something like an hour examination every two weeks (say eight of them in a 16 week semester). No special midterm. Standard two hour final. If you are doing a midterm (or for the more frequent testing scheme above), than yes, definitely the most recent material should be included. Students should work drill problems every night (or at least every night after each class). If you want to skip material from the very last single class period, OK. | |
| Aug 19, 2014 at 14:49 | vote | accept | Henry Towsner | ||
| May 14, 2014 at 14:40 | answer | added | AndrewC | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 13, 2014 at 17:30 | answer | added | vonbrand | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 13, 2014 at 14:25 | history | asked | Henry Towsner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |