Recent requirements concerning the needs of special education students serve this concept well. Teachers must now make untimed tests available to large numbers of students. Since we already reserve Tuesday afternoon for untimed tests for all students, this particular need of special education students is well met. We prefer the concept that special education students [...]

We face the difficult problem of attempting to assess individuals while most of the work and assignments are collaborative. We have a strong preference for collaborative work, as described earlier, yet we do need to arrive at meaningful individual grades. How can we tie our students’ grades to their individual levels of understanding and functioning [...]

We believe that students function best when they are in control, thus we have designed the course such that students accumulate points rather than average them. Most students believe that they can get just about any grade they wish to work for, although the quantity of work may seem prohibitive. Students have access to the [...]