i think multiple-choice-exams are even better because they’re corrected by a machine by scanning the checkboxes and saying either “yes” or “no”. it’s 100% fair and also really effective.
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Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I love the correction system we have at my university. All the exams are pseudonymized with a sticker you receive during the exam and scanned after completion. About 10 to 30 people are involved in correcting the exams for one course. We don’t know who the exams belong to as we only see the scanned version on our tablet or computer. Each task is corrected by a different set of people. We can select to see only a single task or subtask to streamline the process of correction, too. Furthermore, all the tasks are checked twice independently. Once done, the system can assign the exams back to the students. I love how it’s fair and “anonymous” by design.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Multiple choice often fails to allow full demonstration of understanding, and especially at college level, that matters much more.
rbn@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I had so many horrible multiple choice tests where the number of correct answers was stated and I was 100% sure that that wasn’t correct, but there was no room for additional remarks to explain my thoughts.
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Our exam system supports multiple choice and, indeed, collecting that part automatically. (We can still go through the boxes recognized as tick or blank en-masse to check for recognition mistakes.) However, they’re only allowed to make up 20% of an exam according to university-wide rules.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Wait… are there universities that don’t have an anonymous exam system?
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
I was a university student around ten years ago and we usually wrote our names and student identification numbers right on the exam. For the most part our professors didn’t really know us very well anyway (due to the number of students), so I never questioned why it should not be so.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
In early 2010s I had a TA give me an A without grading. When I confronted him he said “Why do you care, you know you’re getting an A anyways?” Lol. He got reprimanded though.
naught101@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Everyone I know who’s ever done uni marking was getting paid a pittance and expected to work at an extremely fast rate… I kinda understand this
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
He regraded my assignment, got a 10 minute empty lecture from the professor, and nothing else changed most likely including the pittance.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Probably. We have a system where you only need to write your student id number but often people also write their names since it makes kt easier to find your exam when going to see what you did right and wrong.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sorry but this seems almost archaic to me. When I was a student we were assigned a number by the exam office that we wrote on our exams, then after the exams were corrected the exam office would send us back our result. It was quite simply putting in a middle-man that did the student <-> number mapping so that the people correcting the exams never saw any names.
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Here, students can also view their graded exams online. There are some professors that don’t do it out of fear of the exams questions being leaked. In that case, you’d go there in person, but you would definitely not be able to just go through the exams on your own until you find the right one. That would never pass data protection laws.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 days ago
We only have in person reviews. You go there and the professor goes through calling out the numbers/names if you wrote yours and hands them out for you to check.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I mean by find your exam I meant the professor or whoever is taking care of it going through them and finding your name instead of calling out every number.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I have never heard of this in my life, and I have no idea if my school does that. US student if that matters. I’ve either done exams online (but logged in), in person, or just had a final project that served as an exam. Hell, even popular HS exams like the PSAT and ACT should have our names on them, as far as I remember. Like maybe when they grade them via scantron they don’t see it, but idk.