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This guest post is by Jez Thompson, Strategic Lead IT at The Open Academy in Norwich Jez blagged a free trial of our J276 OCR Computer Science Practice Exams in return for a promise to write up his experience. After reading How we cracked the auto-marking of GCSE short-text responses I asked Yacapaca for…
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I thought you might enjoy some of answers your student have been giving to the short-text questions in our J276 GCSE Practice Exam module. Actually, I don’t know whose students these are. The students’ responses are completely anonymised when we see them. As the first results to each question come in, we analyse the performance of…
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Following on from my rant about paper-based exams, Ty Goddard of EdTech UK asked me for some current examples of online assessment. Spoiled for choice! Although I could find no country that bases its end-of-school qualification entirely on an online process, there is a quite astonishing range of online solutions to different assessment problems. Here…
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The ‘exam paper’ has been around for the last 14 centuries and it is still going strong. The way things are going, the exam-paper looks likely to outlast even the news-paper. But it shouldn’t. Paper-based exams are a hideously-unreliable method of assessing competence. Here are some of the major reliability problems of
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If you want to deliver a traditional summative test, use Exam Mode. Exam Mode excludes multiple attempts right or wrong notification after each question formative feedback after each question but is otherwise
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