• Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    I love the correction system we have at my university. All the exams are pseudonymized with a sticker you receive during the exam and scanned after completion. About 10 to 30 people are involved in correcting the exams for one course. We don’t know who the exams belong to as we only see the scanned version on our tablet or computer. Each task is corrected by a different set of people. We can select to see only a single task or subtask to streamline the process of correction, too. Furthermore, all the tasks are checked twice independently. Once done, the system can assign the exams back to the students. I love how it’s fair and “anonymous” by design.

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        I was a university student around ten years ago and we usually wrote our names and student identification numbers right on the exam. For the most part our professors didn’t really know us very well anyway (due to the number of students), so I never questioned why it should not be so.

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        I have never heard of this in my life, and I have no idea if my school does that. US student if that matters. I’ve either done exams online (but logged in), in person, or just had a final project that served as an exam. Hell, even popular HS exams like the PSAT and ACT should have our names on them, as far as I remember. Like maybe when they grade them via scantron they don’t see it, but idk.

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        Probably. We have a system where you only need to write your student id number but often people also write their names since it makes kt easier to find your exam when going to see what you did right and wrong.

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          Here, students can also view their graded exams online. There are some professors that don’t do it out of fear of the exams questions being leaked. In that case, you’d go there in person, but you would definitely not be able to just go through the exams on your own until you find the right one. That would never pass data protection laws.

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      i think multiple-choice-exams* are even better because they’re corrected by a machine by scanning the checkboxes and saying either “yes” or “no”. it’s 100% fair and also really effective.

      * where applicable

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        I had so many horrible multiple choice tests where the number of correct answers was stated and I was 100% sure that that wasn’t correct, but there was no room for additional remarks to explain my thoughts.

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        Our exam system supports multiple choice and, indeed, collecting that part automatically. (We can still go through the boxes recognized as tick or blank en-masse to check for recognition mistakes.) However, they’re only allowed to make up 20% of an exam according to university-wide rules.