At 1:56 PM -0500 10/3/00, Hatcher, Joe wrote:
>Hi Sue and Tipsters,
> I have seen a number of testing plans that allow students under some
>conditions to not take a final exam on the course. I, on the other hand,
>consider the final exam to be the most important one in the course, as it
>gives an opportunity to summarize (and often relearn) the main points of the
>semester one more time before the students exit the class. So I would never
>design a class to leave out the final.
> Obviously, there are different opinions on this; I'd like to hear
>what others think.
Personally, I've always thought that final exams are a good test of short
term memory ;-)
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