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Point Deductions - Exams and Quizzes
With regard to an undergraduate statistics course, I am developing a standardized list of point deductions with the TAs (doctoral students) so that graders are consistent in what they are taking off ...
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How should I grade true-or-false questions if the student's writing is unclear?
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I am having a difficult time grading this paper as I am not sure if the student intentionally wrote the answers in such a way that each answer looks like both "T" (...
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How do you handle the frustration of having to GRADE student exams / homework?
A math student may write very long and detailed answers, just because he or she does not know what to look for, for example in Geometry proofs.
Or - a student may just write an arbitrary step without ...
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Experimental results about the variability of grades on a math exam
"[Myth] that exams are objectively graded. Daniel Stark and Edward Elliot sent two English essays to 200 high school teachers for grading. They got back 142 grades. For one paper, the grades ranged ...
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How do you incorporate the results from a final exam into evidence of learning in a valid and justifiable way (i.e. grade determination)?
How do you incorporate the results from a final exam into evidence of learning in a valid and justifiable way (i.e. grade determination)?
This question is open to all education levels.
What is your ...
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As a TA, how to reduce imprecise notations/statements in students' exams
I'm not a course instructor, just a TA of the first quarter calculus course who lead discussion sections and grade exams.
When grading the midterm, I found large number of students showed some ...
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Is there some standard method to measure the difficulty level of mathematics problems?
First off I apologize if this question comes out to be off-topic. I wasn't sure whether to post it on MSE or here.
Lately I gave an exam named SSC-CGL. This exam is conducted every year in India for ...
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How do I grade long calculations in a mathematics exam in a fair way?
I am currently grading a problem in an exam on analysis for mathematics students. One subtask is to calculate a certain integral (The resulting term has to be as simple as possible.). For this part I ...
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Intergration by differentiating will get you $0$ marks - but how to explain why?
When integrating and differentiating, sometimes one direction is easy and the other is harder. A nice example is $\frac{d}{dx}\tan x=\sec^2x$, where differentiating is easy but integration (without ...
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What is a fair way of constructing exams with tiered levels of difficulty?
I would like to construct an exam that has C-level, B-level, and A-level questions.
I would like a student who answers all C-level questions correctly a passing grade, a student who answers all C and ...
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A Method to Grade a Multiple Statement or True and False Question
I am trying to come up a method to grade a multiple choice question. I prepared a test that consists of some questions and each question has 10 options for which 3 to 5 options are correct. When I ...
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Resources on how to mark a maths exam
I am looking for some resources which tells someone how to mark a (1st year undergraduate level) maths exam paper. Ideally it would cover the basic stuff, like making an error at the top doesn't ...
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How to award points for sense-making at the end of a problem?
Here is a statistics question I asked on a recent exam:
How high should the doorway be to allow 97% of men to fit through it?
I got a very large number of answers like "3 inches" or "0.0001 feet". ...
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Grading scale: how to handle multiple choice questions with different number of choices
Suppose you have been told to give a multiple choice exam, and to nullify the effects of random guessing by penalizing incorrect answers. Suppose there are $N$ available choices, of which exactly one ...
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On what total do you grade your exams?
Let's say that a given course has $3$ exams that are worth $25\%, 35\%$ and $40\%$ each. When building and correcting the exam, do you give/take out points so that the total sums to $25,35$ or $40$ ...
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