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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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