Open book examinations: modifying pedagogical practices for effective teaching and learning

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2021-12-02 DOI:10.1080/03069400.2021.1999151

Daniel Bansal

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ABSTRACT In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, law schools in England and Wales hastily moved their learning and teaching and assessments online to ensure that students could continue with their studies with the least amount of disruption to their education and schedules as possible. One consequence of this emergency change was that, although assessments were now online and (mostly) un-proctored, they became open-book examinations (OBEs) in the process. Unfortunately, because of the short timescale in which these changes had to be implemented, there is a risk that these OB examinations are assessing closed-book examination (CBE) pedagogy. This article argues that if academic staff retain pre-existing learning and teaching materials, initially designed for CBE, but then examine students by OBE, this will only bring the disbenefits of both CBE and OBE; academic staff need to review the design, assessment, guidance, formative assessments, and delivery of modules to ensure that they align with this mode of examination. This article provides some guidance for law schools on these matters drawing on the pedagogical theory on OBE.

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开卷考试：修改教学实践以实现有效教学

为应对Covid-19大流行，英格兰和威尔士的法学院匆忙将他们的学习、教学和评估转移到网上，以确保学生能够在尽可能少地中断他们的教育和时间表的情况下继续学业。这一紧急变化的一个后果是，尽管现在的评估是在线的，而且(大部分)没有监考，但在这个过程中，它们变成了开卷考试(obe)。不幸的是，由于这些变化必须在短时间内实施，因此存在这些OB考试评估闭卷考试(CBE)教学法的风险。本文认为，如果学术人员保留原有的、最初为CBE设计的学习和教学材料，然后用OBE来检验学生，这只会带来CBE和OBE的弊端;学术人员需要审查模块的设计、评估、指导、形成性评估和交付，以确保它们与这种考试模式保持一致。本文借鉴了出窍的教育学理论，为法学院校在这些问题上提供了一些指导。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.