{"id":74867,"date":"2021-04-11T13:12:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T17:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=74867"},"modified":"2021-04-11T13:19:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T17:19:39","slug":"rebooting-the-final-exam-talbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/04\/11\/rebooting-the-final-exam-talbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebooting the final exam [Talbert]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/roberttalbert.medium.com\/rebooting-the-final-exam-276e6fb98a89\"><strong>Rebooting the final exam<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from roberttalbert.medium.com by Robert Talbert<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s probably better not to give final exams at all, but if you must, then here are some alternative approaches that do more to help students.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some ideas for what your students might do on a final exam like this.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Create a mind map of the course or a portion of it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Write a new catalog description for the course.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Write a letter to an incoming high school student who will be taking the course next semester.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Write a short essay about: What are the main ideas of this subject, and how do they all connect together? \u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Write about their metacognition.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Leave one piece of advice to the next round of students taking this course.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebooting the final exam &#8212; from roberttalbert.medium.com by Robert Talbert Excerpts:\u00a0 It\u2019s probably better not to give final exams at all, but if you must, then here are some alternative approaches that do more to help students. Here are some ideas for what your students might do on a final exam like this. Create a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,68,115,302,71,3,419,119,102,838,163,468,385,173,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-assessment","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-learning","category-learning-experience-design","category-mathematics","category-metacognition-metacognitive-skills","category-michigan","category-pedagogy","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74872,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74867\/revisions\/74872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}