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Questions about test-based evaluation of student progress and achievement.
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What should I do if I accidentally get graded on a take-home exam for someone else's work?
Do go and see the professor, as pointed out someone else may be hurting. It may well be that the prof could turn around and sort the other person's grade to its correct value - if that is the case, an …
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How to get rid of excessive 'silly' mistakes?
Well, simple steps can be:
Slow down, many errors are due to rushing.
Read the question twice before starting , make notes or underline important info.
Return and re-read the question and answer ch …
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Should I be concerned about student access to a test bank?
I use the test bank to feed a quiz of 10 questions, each question comes from a category that has between 15 to 80 questions.
The students get access through a review quiz that has 10 questions with t …
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Why doesn't the university give past final exams' answers?
They don ‘t give out those solutions as they use the questions in future exams.
If they handed out those solutions then that question bank is not longer useful. …
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Exam design: give maximum score per question or not?
The policy where I am is that the points for each question are shown.
This is fine, because (and only an example):
small questions can be worth 1 or 2 points,
short answer questions can be 2 or 5 p …
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What does 'to mark' mean in the UK?
Marking is grading but comments are not compulsory as it depends on the policy if the papers will be seen by anyone else after.
I do an excel based exam and there are points for parts (calculations ) …
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Two professors teaching the same course, should they unify their exams?
Two different exams covering the same material with different questions to the same standard does happen. … In fact sometimes I have to do 3 exams for the same course due to room availability and numbers of students... …
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Why are examinees often not allowed to leave during the start and end of an exam?
Well the 10 minutes at the beginning is to allow some to arrive late without the possibility of collusion.
Where I work, it is 15 minutes at the beginning just for any who are late...
The 10 minutes …
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Should I e-mail my professor after completely blanking on my final exam?
Contact your mentor / advisor / tutor either before the results come out or after - they should be able to advise you within the parameters of the institution.
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Is it okay to ask your professor about the final exam that I took 3 years ago?
If you were asking about the final exams you just took then the answer would probably be an easy "yes". …
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Handling "contraband" tattoos in closed-book exams
If it is a tattoo, then the proctor may ask that it is covered : plaster, bandage etc. If the student refuses then they may not be allowed to sit the exam.
However, it does depend on the institution …
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I screwed up the final. What should I do?
Wait for the results, then go and see the relevant people - everybody can then act on a real situation instead of "well this" and "well that"...
You don't know what the marking scheme was so what you …
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A student forgot to answer an exam question
You need to stick to the marking scheme.
That said, if many missed the last question or it was poorly answered by most then you may consider completely removing that question - this means that all s …
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I lost my students' quizzes due to a theft, what should I do?
Not had a bag stolen, but lost a quiz (online system), best thing is tell the students directly that it happened and you will deal with the grades appropriately.
What is "appropriate" may need to be …
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Most recommended automated way for conduction university exams
You cannot avoid the designing question part or having them checked / verified for quality, constistency etc
But you could try an online system which offers questions from a question bank.
On good s …
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