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What I Learned from Giving 71 Oral Exams in 12 Days
April 20, 2026
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Frustrated with reading countless AI-generated take-home essays and long ago disillusioned with scantrons, I plunged into oral exams this finals season. The classes were lower-division history courses: one comprised mostly of history majors, the other mostly students fulfilling a GE. Using Google Calendar, students picked half-hour time slots beginning the day after the last class and ending the day before my grade submission deadline.
The 20 in-person slots quickly filled. These in-person slots occurred in our classroom during our [] The post What I Learned from Giving 71 Oral Exams in 12 Days appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching Learning.
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