Queries related to assessment of students for skills, attitudes, knowledge etc.
Educational assessment can focus on individuals or a group of students or institution.
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My assessor is giving me spelling advice - but he's wrong
I'm writing the thesis on which I aim to graduate with a bachelor's degree. I've got an incredibly nice assessor, whom I sent part of it, and he gave a lot of helpful feedback on structure, relevant and irrelevant details, et cetera.
But he also…
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Should Self-Assessments be Scored? (not Graded)
I do not like the self-assessment software that comes with Desire2Learn, my institution's chosen LMS. It is semester break, and I'm writing my own self-assessment software. My software identifies wrong answers, marks right answers, and provides…
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Advantages of second marking
In the UK a portion, and in some cases all, work is "second marked" where an independent marker also marks the work. In cases where the 1st and 2nd marker disagree, a 3rd marker may be used. Finally, the entire work of each student over the course…
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What unusual/innovative methods are there to deal with late submissions of assessment?
Some context: I was intrigued by a short discussion in another answer relating to dealing with late submissions of work by students, where Jeff suggested giving students a limited number of 12-hour "late tokens" that they can use at their discretion…
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What, if anything, is accomplished by formal assessment?
As a faculty member teaching freshman calculus, I was recently asked to participate in an assessment program. The aim of the program is to "design assessment procedures to measure student learning". This year's program is a pilot and they are asking…
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How to get students to connect the pre-lab to the lab?
This is a very frustrating issue we are seeing with our students. Students get access to the prelab one week in advance of the lab. In the prelab, the students often have to use theory to predict a result in the lab. Almost all students get the…
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To what extent can guessing part of a multiple choice test lower your average score?
Especially where there are numerous possible answers to each question, e.g. 5.
If one doesn’t know the answer to a question but puts forth a (somewhat) educated guess, at what point is the chance of getting >0 for this question secondary to lowering…
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Effect of late penalties on cheating and late submissions
Is there any research on the effect of late penalties on both late submissions and academic honesty? I imagine that having some late penalties will certainly encourage students to get their stuff in on time, but I wonder if the effect is stronger…
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Is this appropriate for a remarking policy?
I take a course of which the remarking policy requires students to point out why their marks of exam or assignments are wrong, or they cannot request for a remarking. The professor said it can stop students to ask for more marks for no reason. It is…
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