Forms of Assessment

Seen or Open-book Examinations

Description

The seen (as opposed of course to "unseen") examination allows students to read case-study material or prescribed texts for a defined period (probably about a week) before the date of the examination. They can discuss it and research background material, but they do not know the actual questions to be asked until they enter the examination room.

The open-book examination allows students to consult required texts (legal statutes, for example, or various tables) during the examination. The texts have to be clean, i.e. without any form of annotation.

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Original material by James Atherton: last up-dated 4 November 2009

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