It's exam week!
Enjoy these posts and ask your questions about the end of the semester
Today is the first day of our exam week here at Grand Valley State University. Robert and I are managing the logistics of final portfolios, final reassessments, and final exams. We’ll be back next week with a new guest post!
Until then, here are two of our favorite past posts about how alternative grading works with final exams and final grades — and a chance to ask us questions about the end of the semester too.
A bunch of practical advice for managing final exams:
It's almost final exam time
Many of us are getting close to the end of our semesters. With that comes a host of things to think about with our assessments, including what to do about final exams. This week, I’ll dig into a grab bag of things to think about, ideas that can be helpful, and — especially — a plea to slow down.
How to assign plus, minus, and half grades at the end of a semester:
Partial grades for growth
No matter where you stand on how, or whether, individual items of student work should be graded, one thing is almost certainly true: You'll have to assign course grades to each student at the end of the term. Most approaches we’ve written about here are fairly straightforward for assigning "whole" grades -- A, B, C, D, or F.…
Have questions about the end of the semester?
Are you wrestling with an issue, big or small, about the end of your semester? Trying to figure out a final exam or how to assign grades? Post your question as a comment on this thread! We’ll see what we can do to help you out.