Alternatives to Timed Exams

Workshop Slides for Alternatives to Timed Exams

Alternative Assessments | Ontario Tech University

Alternatives to Standardized STEM Testing | STEM Sports

Alternatives to Traditional Exams as Measures of Student Learning Outcomes | The Scholarly Teacher

Alternatives to Traditional Testing | University of California Berkeley Center for Teaching and Learning

Assessing Student Learning: Alternatives to Closed Book Exams | Wake Forest University Center for the Advancement of Teaching

Moving Away from High-Stakes Exams | University of Arizona Digital Learning

Testing Alternatives | University of California Davis

Sample Assignments 

Consolidation Assignment | Inma Ibanez-Casas, SUNY Plattsburgh

E-Portfolio Assignment | Breanna Boppre, Sam Houston State University

Infographic Assignment  | Breanna Boppre, Sam Houston State University 

Research Paper Alternatives | Breana Bayrakta, Northern Virginia Community College

Sample Student Work | Viji Sathy, University of North Carolina 

Science Learning Assessment Menu | Tai Munro

Some Authentic Assessment Activities | Michael Sanky, Griffith University

Oral Exams

Assessing Student Learning with Oral Exams | Notre Dame Learning

Building Deeper Learning Through Oral Exams: Conversations That Count | University of Pennsylvania Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation

Designing, Conducting & Assessing Oral Exams | University of Delaware Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning

Interventions and Facilitators of Oral Assessment Performance in Higher Education: A Systemic Review | Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Ed

Exploring Alternative Assessments during COVID: Instructor Experiences Using Oral Exams| Frontiers in Education

Oral Assessments | Brandeis University Center for Teaching and Learning

Oral Exams | University of Central Florida Faculty Center

Oral Examinations as an Alternative to Written Exams in Health Sciences Education: A Targeted Response to AI Challenges | Pedagogy in Health Promotion

Oral Exams for a Generative AI World: Managing Concerns and Logistics for Undergraduate Humanities Instruction | College Teaching

Oral Exams: A More Meaningful Assessment of Students’ Understanding |  Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education

In Praise of the Oral Exam: Returning to Face-to-Face Conversation in the Age of AI | Society for Cultural Anthropology

The Return of the Oral Exam | Chronicle of Higher Education

Professors are Turning to this Old-School Method to Stop AI Use on Exams | The Washington Post

Using Oral Exams | Princeton University McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning

Using Oral Exams to Assess Students’ Understanding | Hamilton College

Further Reading 

Alternative Assessment of Active Learning | Active Learning in the Analytical Chemistry Curriculum 

Alternative Assessments to High-Stakes Exams | University of North Dakota Teaching Transformation and Development Academy

Alternatives to Traditional Exams and Papers | Indiana University Bloomington, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning

Collaborative Exams: Cheating? Or Learning? | American Journal of Physics

Creating Authentic Assessments | University of Michigan Online Teaching

Exams as Learning Tools: A Comparison of Traditional and Collaborative Assessment in Higher Education | College Teaching

Five Reasons to Stop Giving Exams in Class | Faculty Focus

Four Empirically Based Reasons Not to Administer Time-Based Tests | Translational Issues in Psychological Science

Rethinking Assessment: Replacing Traditional Exams with Paper Reviews | Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education 

Speak Up! Oral Examinations and Political Science | Journal of Political Science Education 

Tips for Creating Open-Book Exams | Indiana University Bloomington Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning

Using Poster Sessions as an Alternative to Written Examinations: The Poster Exam | Journal of Chemical Education