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There are as many ways for students to demonstrate what they've learned as there are courses, majors, and departments or programs. The type of assessment that makes the most sense in a particular circumstance has partly to do with the type of department or program in question and partly to do with the level at which the assessment is taking place.

For example, while language departments could assess student learning in a wide range of ways other than nationally standardized language exams, such standardized exams make sense for language departments in ways they simply don't for other types of 华体会 departments such as English or Anthropology.

Assessment often takes place in the capstone but can just as easily take place in a non-capstone course, especially if there is something particularly special or meaningful about the course (gateway courses, methods courses, theory courses, technical skills courses, upper-level seminars, or particularly popular electives).

Assessment approaches at the capstone level can include:

• Theses, tutorial papers, or substantive research papers on any topic and using any research methodology
• National standardized exams, historically used in some science departments
• Oral exams, such as the one comprising part of the Feminist and Gender Studies exit interview (a