Coursework is carried out by students at university or middle / high school that contributes towards their overall grade, but which is assessed separately from their final exams. Coursework can, for example, take the form of experimental work, or may involve research in the sciences. It can comprise dissertations, book reports or essays submitted for arts subjects. CourseWork, a course management system (CMS), was developed at Stanford University. ... For other uses, see Student (disambiguation). ... For the community in Florida, see University, Florida. ... Middle school (also known as intermediate school or junior high school) covers a period of education that straddles primary/elementary education and secondary education, serving as a bridge between the two. ... For other uses, see High school (disambiguation). ... Look up grade in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In education, certification, counselling, and many other fields, a test or exam (short for examination) is a tool or technique intended to measure students expression of knowledge, skills and/or abilities. ... In the scientific method, an experiment (Latin: ex- periri, of (or from) trying) is a set of observations performed in the context of solving a particular problem or question, to retain or falsify a hypothesis or research concerning phenomena. ... This article is about the concept. ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... A dissertation or thesis is a document that presents the authors research and findings and is submitted in support of candidature for a degree or professional qualification. ... A book report is an exposition giving a short summary of a book and a reaction to it. ... For other uses, see Essay (disambiguation). ... The Arts is a broad subdivision of culture, comprised of many expressive disciplines. ...

In universities, coursework is often one of many different modes of assessment. Students are required to produce coursework in order to broaden knowledge and enhance research skills, and to demonstrate that they can discuss, reason and construct practical outcomes from the theoretical knowledge learned during their course. Sometimes coursework is tackled by a group, so students may learn both how to work in groups and from each other. But in recent times, plagiarism and copying have been major issues to contend with.

There has been some controversy regarding the help students can receive whilst doing their coursework, abuse of which may lead to the disqualification of students at different levels - in the UK, the Joint Council for Qualifications can disqualify plagiarism. Easily accessible websites, have given people the opportunity to "lift" ideas and even complete essays, despite the greater protective measures employed to detect this. While coursework may give learners the chance to improve their grades, it also provides an opportunity to 'cheat the system'. This is one of the reasons, amongst others, that in the UK coursework is gradually being removed from the GCSE course, and instead being replaced by a system where all of the grade comes from a "final exam". For other uses, see Plagiarism (disambiguation). ... A website, Web site or WWW site (often shortened to just site) is a collection of webpages, that is, HTML/XHTML documents accessible via HTTP on the Internet; all publicly accessible websites in existence comprise the World Wide Web. ... GCSE is an acronym that can refer to: General Certificate of Secondary Education global common subexpression elimination - an optimisation technique used by some compilers This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

See also

• busy work
• book report
• homework
• schoolwork
• school
• education