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Correcting exams

  • 26-05-2006 9:33am
    #1
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭


    In the middle of correcting college exams at the moment, and yearning for it all to be over.

    One debate that has been raging among academic staff is the best method to correct exams - do you correct Q1 on each script, then move on to Q2 on each script and so on, or do you correct each script in it's entirety from start to finish?


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  • #2
    pwee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭pwee


    I would suggest that u mark all the Q1's first and proceed like that as u can get a better feel for it that way. Now do u correct on a curve? I know that they do in some colleges well if u do i would think that the method said earlier would be the only method u could use.


  • #3
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    pwee wrote:
    Now do u correct on a curve? I know that they do in some colleges well if u do i would think that the method said earlier would be the only method u could use.

    No, I correct on the couch :D

    What do you mean correct on a curve?


  • #4
    claire h
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭claire h


    Correcting on a curve is basically where you establish what the general level is, and then mark accordingly - so what would get a particular mark is relative rather than fixed. It's like how the Leaving Cert is marked - there's a quota system, there has to be a certain number of As, Bs and Cs, so the marking system is adjusted accordingly once the standard is ascertained.

    If you're on a quota system it makes much more sense to do all the Q1s together. Even if you're not, marking that way means you're less likely to penalise/reward students in later Qs (e.g. oh, he/she wrote great answers all the way through, probably ran out of time for this one, I'll bump them up to the next grade), unless of course there are guidelines concerning duplication of information from Q to Q, in which case you're better off doing it script by script.


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