In this blog I will try to establish a dialog with the class, commenting on items and ideas that arise in class, providing information on relevant news and issues. Please feel free to add some content you think is of interest to the class. Interest items of course may include those pertaining to the course and lecture topics but also may have personal and entertaining character. Hans Baer
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Ingenious New Method of Exam Grading
Writing good exam questions and grading exams is an art - not a science. Some of my colleagues think they can write 100 questions and come up with a scientific analysis of the results that gives you an absolute and fair grade. Nonsense: there is no intrinsically absolute value in a question, or in 100 questions, and in the end everything is relative! For the most part this then is fair and good enough - but maybe we could do one better by adopting Mr. D's ingenious and intuitive method, as shown in this video:
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