Midterm exam season is arguably the most stressful time of the semester for many students. While college students should be patting themselves on the backs for making it halfway through the semester, ...

Most of the grading methods and practices referred to as “alternative” today fall under the umbrella term “ungrading.” Ungrading is the practice of wholly removing grades from all formative and ...

In a University of Virginia physics course designed for non-science majors, professor Chris Neu has developed an innovative way to assess his students. In Neu’s iteration of a popular, long-running ...

The purpose of this paper is to present findings on alternate assessments for students who are deaf or hard of hearing (SDHH). Drawn from the results of the "Second National Survey of Assessments and ...

Most Queen Mary students can expect to face at least some closed book exams during their academic programme and it is rare that any student would be able to obtain a Queen Mary University of London ...

In assessing the possibility of an alternative assessment, it is imperative that the specified learning outcomes of the module are not compromised. Any alternative assessment should assess the ...