Search
Close this search box.

There Is Still a Place for Oral Exams in Education

Credit: iStock.com/xavierarnau
Credit: iStock.com/xavierarnau
While written assessments are the most common tool for measuring learning today, the earliest form of assessment was oral. The Socratic dialectic used by the ancient Greeks, and still used today in Oxford’s tutorial system, combined learning and assessments through a conversation with the student. Those who have gone through the Oxford tutorials universally swear by their benefits, yet they’re rarely used in academia.

To continue reading, you must be a Teaching Professor Subscriber. Please log in or sign up for full access.

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Related Articles

I have two loves: teaching and learning. Although I love them for different reasons, I’ve been passionate about...
One of the courses I am teaching this semester is a senior-level course titled Autonomic Nervous System Regulation....
Are you still lecturing? If so, you are like most faculty. The lecture continues to be the most...
Simple and inexpensive software has made it easy for students and teachers to create video and audio for...
Do people learn in the same way or different ways? According to cognitive science, the answer is the...
When watching a movie, you might use the first few minutes to decide whether you will like it...
Instructors in face-to-face courses can roughly gauge how well students understand the material by facial expressions and audience...

Are you signed up for free weekly Teaching Professor updates?

You'll get notified of the newest articles.