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Guest Blog Post by Carl Pletsch, Ph.D. Do your students take notes? Whether students take notes in class or not may be important. The process of note-taking may (a) have an impact on student learning, ...

Last spring, as I was preparing for a new semester, I had an epiphany: Closed-book exams seem to unfairly aid students who excel at memorization. So I decided to allow my classes to use notes during ...