How Can I Make My Exams about Learning, Less about Grades?
Making exams better suit your learning goals requires student participation at every step of the process. Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D., widely published author, scholar, editor of The Teaching Professor, and award-winning educator, shares real-world, tested guidelines for integrating student input, including having students—as individuals, groups, and a class—think about what will be on an exam, assigning preparation of review materials as a group project for students, using development of test questions as a student assignment, and making students responsible for correcting exams.