Faculty Perspectives on Comprehensive Exams and Their Impact on Students

Comprehensive exams have been a staple in education and still continue to prevail to this day. It is important to take a look not only at the effectiveness of these exams but the changes that have been made and what essential information should be known about them. It is important to look at how students to continue to be intimidated by the process of these exams, faculty expectations, and institutional perceptions.

This book includes several disciplines - business, health, and education regarding what faculty expect, how comprehensive exams have changed over the years, and what students need to know. It will cover these topics from an institutional type perspective, including HBCU's, private, public and for-profit institutions. This book is ideal for administrators, teacher educators, school faculty, higher education administration, professors, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students.