High school students at MLC don't take finals. (Yes, you read that right.) Instead, we complete culminating projects for each class. The piece can take almost any form imaginable--it could be a persuasive essay, a painting, a compilation of poems and photographs, a lab report, a math problem, a recipe book, or a video, to mention a few options. At the end of each year, we present three of those pieces--a writing piece, a problem solving piece, and a piece of our choice--to a panel of judges who score the presentation. Sophomores and seniors present to outside panelists--volunteers who may be parents, teachers' parents, or members of the larger community (for example, people who work at businesses nearby). Freshmen present to juniors, and juniors present to seniors.
This alternative method of proving what you have learned is, in my mind, a much more accurate and all-encompassing one. It lets the student explain what they learned, how they grew, and what they had difficulties with--it forces us to metacognate, and to really show all aspects of what we got out of a class, not just how well we take tests. It's yet one more thing that we love about MLC.
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