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Flipping (and Giving) the Script: Using Short Films in Religion Exams

Author(s): Derry, Ken
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For many years now I have put a question on the final exam in various religion courses that asks students to apply ideas from the course to a short film screened during the exam. This is a film we have not watched or discussed before, so it is essentially new data for the class. In this article I discuss some of the challenges I encountered when I began using short films in exams and how I resolved them. I also discuss the many advantages of this approach, some of which I had anticipated (or at least hoped for), while others surprised me. These surprises include congruencies between using short films in exams and principles of trauma-informed pedagogy. The article includes specific examples from three courses of exam questions and films, and answers that three students provided.


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Derry, Ken: Flipping (and Giving) the Script: Using Short Films in Religion Exams. In: Journal for Religion, Film and Media, Jg. 8 (2022), Nr. 2, S. 65-82. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19602.
@ARTICLE{Derry2022,
 author = {Derry, Ken},
 title = {Flipping (and Giving) the Script: Using Short Films in Religion Exams},
 year = 2022,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19602}",
 volume = 8,
 address = {Marburg},
 journal = {Journal for Religion, Film and Media},
 number = 2,
 pages = {65--82},
}
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