Timeline for How can I prevent students from writing answers on an assignment, then claiming I didn't see their answer?
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| Nov 9, 2017 at 15:39 | comment | added | JeffE | @badroit Recently I scan exams and grade them online. In the past, I’ve drawn X’s through blank ares of the page, written “No answer” in places with missing answers, and circled important parts of incorrect answers, with narrative comments. In 20 years, with thousands fo students, I’ve had only a couple of cases where students tried to modify their graded exams, and they were all easily detectable. (And by “time” I mean on the scale of days, not minutes.) | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 14:13 | comment | added | badroit | Well as a human being, I am capable of defeasible reasoning. If they were to return with an exam paper with some complicated solution that they realised in the shower some Saturday should probably work and it was clear to me that they hadn't changed it, I would of course still consider it. :) This has never happened though and doesn't seem like a likely circumstance (perhaps given the nature of my exams). | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 13:44 | comment | added | JeffUK | So basically.. "Please check your change before leaving the store" | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 4:09 | comment | added | badroit | (2) That the students have no time to think about their papers. If the students have doubts, I am there to discuss and usually I (and/or my TAs) can discuss the solution with them for as long as needed. If the case is not resolvable there and then, they simply leave the paper with me and if they want a copy, I will make one. The only restriction is that if they have a remaining doubt, or think they may have a doubt, they don't take the original paper. They can still ask for a copy if they want to review it in their own time. | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 4:04 | comment | added | badroit | Rebutting your two main reasons for downvoting: (1) Because it will not work in your particular case where you have several hundred students. But I'm assuming there are many answers on this site that don't work in your particular case. Shall you downvote them all? I don't think there's any "perfect/universal" answer here (or often in the real world in general). Why not downvote all answers then? Shall I downvote the top answer because in all of my exams the students answer on their own paper and there's no blanks to cross? Shall we, in principle, downvote answers for not solving all cases? | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 3:33 | comment | added | badroit | @JeffE, so what is the protocol you follow? | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 23:24 | comment | added | JeffE | Downvoted. Students should be allowed to think about their solutions and feedback from the graders carefully—which takes time—and then approach the instructor to correct legitimate grading mistakes. Because there will be legitimate grading mistakes. Also, I'm teaching several hundred students at a time, so even if I wanted to follow this protocol, I couldn't. | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 21:50 | history | answered | badroit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |