How to design an open book exam? I am a visiting faculty, professor in B-schools. How does one go about in designing or compiling an open book exam, ensuring that it's not tough and neither too easy. At the same time someone who has not read the book will not be able to answer the question. What at the pointers or measures that should be taken care? Isn't designing an open book exam difficult compared to traditional exam?
Open book exams are actually very easy to design (at least I think so, and I favor them in my own teaching): just design it the same way you would design regular exercises. The goal is to evaluate the students’ understanding and skills, i.e. how they analyze and solve problems, rather than the facts they have memorized. To do so, I usually design exams as problems rather than series of trivia questions.