Indian School of Hospitality
A look at the benefits of and challenges in adopting an openbook exam pattern in institutions of higher education
for HEIs. Designing the question paper can be difficult and time consuming as questions need to assess the skills of inferring ideas, application of knowledge, and comprehension and critical thinking skills. This requires a mindset change to make the procedure effective.
Teachers should know that an openbook examination works better when answers cannot be readily extracted from materials, text, and reference books during the test.
Students should not have a false perception that such a test will be easy and that they will be able to find the answers in textbooks without any preparation. Another presumed risk is that the students will stop studying and copy from the open books provided at the hall. At a macro level, the students’ demographic characteristics need to be considered from an empathetic angle.
Given the socioeconomic disparity that exists between rural and urban students, access to the Internet, reference books, and other relevant learning materials is not equal. This can create an inequitable situation, as some books are very expensive and beyond the reach of some. An openbook exam also requires a spacious hall to provide enough space to store all the material and, in rare circumstances, to consult with the instructor during the exam.
Conducting such an exam requires considerable thought, beginning from curriculum design and development, its suitability to the nature and type of courses, rearrangement of examination halls and seating arrangements during examinations.
These challenges can be mitigated provided administrators, teachers and students understand the importance of this procedure and help one another by unlearning certain biases in order to reap the real harvest of learning, which is developing higher order thinking skills rather than knowledge recall.
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