Word: exam
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...Examiner's Report -- a routine formality in most cases--was held up this time by the CAB in order to allow the Board to "independently review" the matter. Should the Board adopt the Report--and a decision is expected late this month--Youth Fare will be dead before exam period begins...
Four-hour exam grades are one kind of incentive, but they are not the only kind. To the extent that they operate as an incentive, they also tend to undermine a student's better motives. Students admitted to this law school have been trained to work hard. Most are efficient and eager to add to their understanding of any new, complex subject. Most would feel inadequate and uncomfortable unless they attempted to master the material offered in the first year...
...class, but warn students they will be graded on a different curve than other members of the section. Other professors inform students that the small section will not discuss material covered in class, since that would give members of the small section an advantage in taking the final exam. If the proposed system of evaluation were adopted, professors might want to reapraise the use to which they now put small sections. Some might want to replace small sections in whole or in part with the small groups suggested above, in which students would work much more closely with each other...
While many, perhaps most, professors believe that a final exam is indispensable for aiding a student in pulling together a course, some professors, under the proposed system, might wish to consider whether in certani courses a paper or take-home exam would be a more effective means...
...free to submit to prospective employers such indices of ability as the student feels best reflect his ability. The most important of these would be samples of his written work done either in or out of class. A portfolio of the student's work might, at his option, include exam papers on which he had done well...