Finals!

I never realized until this week, how wonderful it is that the classes I'm taking for the College of Education do not have final exams. Why do teachers feel that a test on every detail that you learned during the entire semester can dictate what you learned in the class. I truly think there are so many types of other assessments which we learned in our classes that show the level of understanding, besides a multiple choice test. As future teachers, we should think about what a "final" exam means, and is it really beneficial to our students?