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From: "Mike Sullivan" <mikesul@amerytel.net>
To: <classics@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Query on final examinations
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 07:03:56 -0500
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Please keep this kind of discussion ON list.

Mike Sullivan

-----Original Message-----
From: John M. McMahon <mcmahon@mail.lemoyne.edu>
To: CLASSICS@u.washington.edu <CLASSICS@u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2002 6:18 AM
Subject: Query on final examinations


>Here's a general question that has come up about testng
>students at the *elementary* levels of language learning,
>particularly Latin and Greek ... but comments about any
>language would also work. 
>
>Has anyone ever given a take-home final for students at the
>elementary level of Latin and/or Greek? Why or why not? And
>what kind of exam *would* qualify as a legitimate and
>accurate means of evaluating student progress at that level?
>
>Note that would be for a regularly scheduled course,
>stressing grammar/syntax in the "traditional" manner -- and
>*not* for independent or so-called directed study.
>
>Any opinions/comments welcome. As one might expect, I
>personally do not see how such an exam could work; but I'd
>like some kind of perspective on this form the larger
>Classics community.
>
>Contact me off-list unless other list members wish to see responses.
>
>Thanks,
>
>John McMahon
>Le Moyne College
>

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