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GeneralNot a programming question Pin
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Richard MacCutchan1-May-20 21:07
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JokeWork logic Pin
Super Lloyd1-May-20 12:58
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Super Lloyd2-May-20 2:33
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GeneralNot too smart for college kids if you ask me Pin
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kalberts2-May-20 11:38
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When I was teaching at a tech college, I always structured the final exam problems according to the Bloom taxonomy:

The a) question asked for pure reproduction; it was usually quite simple, and could be looked up in the textbook material. (I always insisted on open book exams!)

The b) question required the student to show that he had, at a basic level, comprehended the information in the textbook, e.g. by explaining concepts is his own words or related to other concepts.

The c) question asked for how to apply this knowledge to a specified problem.

The d) question was pointed at analysis: How well the candidate could decompose a situation into constituent parts, isolate subproblems, create a reasonable modularization.

The e) question was aimed at putting together pieces as a whole, "synthesis" in Bloom terms.

The f) question asked for critical evaluation of what was put together in question e), or in most cases: Describing how to evauluate it.

Usually, a full exam had three areas structured this way, so that if a candidate was weak in one area, he could demonstrate his excellence in another on.

Up until the c) question, you could usually find reasonably good answers in the textbooks (as long as you knew them well). I always spent some time at the end of the course describing this plan to the students, handing out the problems from exams of earlier years, telling them that they would pass if they could provide a reasonable answer to the three c) questions, but if they wanted something more than just a passing grade, climbing up the ladder of understanding was required.

This was a great frustration to some of our guest students from Asia: They couldn't understand that if they copied everything correctly from the textbook, why wouldn't that give them a top grade? I explained to them that copying the textbook never got them beyond the c) question (illustrating it by earlier exam's d, e and f questions), and they were really worried...

Generally speaking, you could get a top grade by handling the e) question reasonably well. The f) question essentiall gave the candidate an opportunity to show excellence in one area that coud compensate for a weakness in another area.

Open book exams and online exams are quite similar. You get only so far without thinking yuorself, it the exam is properly structured. I gusess some tightening up might be needed for an online exam, but if I were made resposible for one, I would go by the same basic plan.

I certainly learned a lot by forcing myself to structure final exams according to this schedule!
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