Word: midterm
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Instead, the red lecture hall played host to three consecutive midterm exams, from...
...savvy and the anal usually manage to find out, but the middle-of-the-road, average member of the Class of 1997 probably does not. At least not until the midterm of doom falls on his or her head somewhere in the middle of the semester and our first-year friend retreats to Room 13 in shock...
...humanities and social sciences, for example, many large lecture classes still use midterms and finals as their basic requirements. Some toss in an undefined term-paper at the end. The Core office mandates its professors give, at minimum, a midterm and a final. This inertia continues despite what education scholars have long recommended: The most effective teaching and learning occurs through constant writing and revision...
...effort to spread the good word to many large classes. For example, one of the largest courses at Harvard, Literature and Arts C-37 (The Bible and Its Interpreters), doesn't require any written work. Is it any wonder then that most people blow off the reading until the midterm or reading period? Clearly, students of all stripes are attracted to guts. But the price we pay is a lost opportunity to gain and retain something valuable--knowledge...
...side from the aforementioned locals and some diehard ex-Communists in Russia, practically no one noticed the 75th anniversary of the coup which for seven decades gave the Bolsheviks and their progeny control of the world's largest country. My core class on the Russian Revolution joylessly began its midterm 75 years to the hour after the coup got underway. Almost no one there even sensed the timing...