Saturday, February 23, 2008

Partial credit in your future

I majorly like the partial credit possibilities here, with SMA mode, and I hope you realize the advantage it holds for you as a student taking the examinations.

Partial credit is a feature in long hand-written exams in upper level physics courses, which have to be graded by hand by professor and TAs. It is very laborious to grade but the results are important to assessing a student's understanding. I can now make these distinctions with you guys in GEP physical science, using SMA and analyzing the results.

So your class just went into overdrive.