Timeline for Should I give full credit for a correct answer different from the expected one to an exam question?
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| Oct 7, 2022 at 13:25 | comment | added | CGCampbell | Indeed, if the OP was asking about the correctness of the answer given, then we should and would care about the specifics. However, in that case, there is a better SE than Academia | |
| Oct 7, 2022 at 13:21 | comment | added | CGCampbell | @Sabine I think you, and some others, are delving too deep into the weeds of the topic of the exam, when that's not what's being asked advice on. The OP has already stated "which is also correct," so the OP has recognized to them, both the answer to the exam question they were looking for AND the answer to the exam question given by the student are both correct. So the answer to the SE question asked needs only examine that. IMO the answer can only be full marks. I would expect any answers below to explain why that should be so, or explain why it should NOT be so. | |
| Oct 7, 2022 at 6:54 | answer | added | 23Xor | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 20:47 | answer | added | Esther | timeline score: 7 | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 20:26 | comment | added | Sabine | Seeing some comments to the answers given (arguing that "a chemical reaction" should also get credit), it would be great to clearly state in the question what the overall topic of the exam was. | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 16:15 | comment | added | jxh | It is unclear that you are only expecting people who have a strong understanding of the relationship between the expected answer and the student's answer to be advising you. You should explain how the two answers are related and the rationale for considering the student's answer to only being partially correct. | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 15:46 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | This just reminds of the chemistry teacher who, allegedly, mixed NaOH and HCl and then gargled with the mixture. | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 15:13 | comment | added | Sophie Swett | Is there any way that your students could have known that the expected answer was "a neutralization reaction" and not "a double displacement reaction"? | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 15:01 | comment | added | JonathanZ | @EarlGrey - I disagree. That does more of the students work for them, and doesn't test their ability to identify a double displacement reaction. A blanket policy, stated in class before the test and also repeated on the test, of ""multiple answers may be true, but you need to pick the best, most specific, one", would be a better fix. | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 12:19 | comment | added | EarlGrey | Note to OP: at the next exam, please ask "What type of double displacement reaction is this?" By asking what type of reaction, instead of what reaction, a student may have felt the pressure of recognizing the overarching family of reaction (i.e. double displacement) instead of the specific one. | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 11:48 | answer | added | PLL | timeline score: 39 | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 6:25 | answer | added | Federico Poloni | timeline score: 10 | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 5:50 | history | edited | GoodDeeds | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Oct 6, 2022 at 3:36 | history | suggested | muru | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 5, 2022 at 23:30 | comment | added | cag51♦ | Please don’t write answers in comments. It bypasses our quality measures by not having voting (both up and down) available on comments, as well as having other problems detailed on meta. Comments are for clarifying and improving the question; please don’t use them for other purposes. | |
| Oct 5, 2022 at 14:49 | answer | added | JonathanZ | timeline score: 45 | |
| Oct 5, 2022 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1577539096288923649 | ||
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| S Oct 4, 2022 at 14:45 | history | asked | MDB | CC BY-SA 4.0 |