Posted by alexandra_k on March 16, 2005, at 13:31:43
In reply to Re: but we can do some of that now, posted by alexandra_k on March 16, 2005, at 13:25:57
In one of the classes I am tutoring we have a 'self marked test'. The students sit the test in the lecture. Then they are supposed to swap the test with their neighbor (ha!) and the lecturer goes through the answers and they are supposed to mark it themselves.
Of course it turns into an absolute fiasco every year.
The tests are then handed in and assigned to a proper marker. They then get properly marked. The wrong answers that were marked right are changed and vice versa.
The point of the exercise is that at the end of that process students are less likely to complain about the marking. In fact we have never had a student complain about the marking of a 'self-marked test' even though the majority of their answers are changed.
We also get a lot less complaints about marking errors as the students realise that marking is harder than it looks...
Same with determining whether someone should be warned or blocked or whatever I suppose...
It works. Why not?
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