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Re: [HAPS-L] Comprehensive final exam - pros and cons

I always give a comprehensive final, but I give out a long list of objectives from which the questions are drawn. I try to emphasize the big picture things, and the important concepts they need to take with them to the next level. The list, as long as it is, seems to alleviate the anxiety and help them focus on reviewing major concepts rather than going over old tests. 

marsha

Carl Shuster wrote:


Hello, everyone,

I am right in the middle of putting together my final exam for A&P2.  For years, I have given a comprehensive final exam, but I am starting to have second thoughts.  I was wondering how many of you give a comprehensive final exam at the end of each semester, and what the arguments for or against might be.

I know it is the end of the semester, and I'm not likely to get many responses right now, but I give my comprehensive exam this coming Monday, and the sheer neurosis/stress/panic/hypertension this is causing my students got me to re-evaluate my own arguments for giving one in the first place.  Is it worth the angst????  Or am I creating all this tension for nothing?   Is it a silly hoop?

Discuss.....

Carl S (sitting on the fence on this one)

Carl Shuster
Biology
Madison Area Technical College
(608) 246-6203
CShuster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.matcmadison.edu/faculty/cshuster/


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Marsha Sousa, PhD
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Tanana Valley Campus
University of Alaska Fairbanks

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