How Should I Evaluate My Students?

Assess your students with a portfolio of their work. I would require the students to do some kind of work pertaining to business law such as write a small memorandum of a court case that pertains to business law, short essay on key laws and how they affect businesses, or whatever you think is appropriate for your class. Have them save all their work, correct it, and turn it in as part of the final assessment.

Besides memorizing facts, think about what you want your students to learn from your class. What skills do you want them to have that they can apply to your class, to their jobs, or outside world? What knowledge do you want them to have to understand business law? Once that is answered, have them demonstrate those skills and knowledge.

If my students were poor writers, I would teach them the writing process and make them use it in my content. I like term papers because I get to learn a lot from the research. I also have poor writing skills but that is why I always revise my papers repeatedly and I have 2-3 proof readers. I like reading term papers because I get to learn from the students.

Present a scenario and have them figure out how many business laws did the scenario violate.

Have them construct a fake business and require them to create their own scenario and their own violations. Let them explain some of the possible consequences.

Project activities are always a descent method to assess students. Have the students construct a product that demonstrates their understanding of the topic.

Have them construct a lesson from a topic in business law and have them teach it to the class.

Have them debate about topics in business law. Of course, this idea will depend on the size of your class.

Btw I have not seen a well written test, quiz, review question from a textbook. The questions are usually poor quality questions. My field is in education; some of my education books have horrible questions. They tend to have negative words such as "all of the following are BLANK except" or "Which of the following is not BLANK. Sometimes they use "none of the above" for an answer. When students experience pressure from a test or test anxiety, these questions can confuse students. They might have the knowledge and skills but they can not correctly communicate what they have learned. Besides sometimes even the brightest students cannot take tests well.

Hope this helps.

When students need their exams "dumbed down", they probably shouldn't be there. Especially if it's coming from a TEST BANK from the book's author.

I would suggest going back to the written forms of the exams, so they will learn how to provide proper answers. Start taking off points for improper grammar, and if they start failing, they will buck up and decide to focus. You may be viewed as the "mean" teacher, but isn't it worse to dumb things down for them, when in the real world, it won't be dumbed down?

Maybe give them essay style questions related to real life situations you have encountered, and ask that they give their opinion on how to handle the situation, while relating to ideas and concepts from the text book.

If they are going to be business lawyers, they need to step up to the plate, not have tests dumbed down.

Although, there should be a *healthy* discussion relating to why certain answers are in fact correct when it comes to multiple choice questions. Some students may not understand why answer B is the correct answer, so it is quite important that it is discussed after exams are passed back, so that they have a chance to learn the correct information.

Not with how unhealthy many academics are at the moment. Of path, that is at public faculties. If academics at public faculties might honestly train scholars, then standardized checking out could be totally reasonable since the scholars could've found out it. Seriously regardless that--many academics simply do not look to understand how to train.

make part of there test oral.... 60% oral and the other 40% written, that way the kids who cant really write still get an alright mark... because they do no there stuff but just don't no how to put it on paper