Final exams begin tomorrow. Here is an interesting post about exams that I wrote one year ago: old methods of final examination.
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Posted in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute History, tagged final examinations, RPI students on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
old methods of final examination
Posted in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute History, tagged board of examiners, final examinations, grades, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, report cards on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of the semester when students focus on intense study and face their final examinations. Professors (and/or TAs) will then spend hours grading the exams and recording final grades. In the early years of the Institute, final examinations were not evaluated by professors, but by a board of examiners. The Board of Examiners [...]