This could be done by providing groups of students with envelopes containing exam questions printed on individual note cards, with instructions to sort the questions by topic before answering them.
For example, to retrieve the images of a specific exam request, first has the particular exam request must be queried with the request order id, then the exam items contained in this exam request must be queried, and finally the images of each exam item must be queried.
She said that only "teachers and senior staff here would have password access" to the secure web portal that contains the exams.
A variable to assess the format of exam questions indicated whether the exam contained any of each of the following formats; course work, essay, in-class assessment, lab studies, OSCE, short answer, single phrase, spotter, single word answer, true/false abstain questions, or Viva.
But random checks by inspectors were introduced after claims that, in last year's national tests, some teachers opened the envelopes containing the exam papers early and coached their pupils through the questions.The government will certainly have to be vigilant that performance-related pay schemes do not lead to such abuses.
Supplemental Material 2 contains sample exam questions illustrating the differences in assessment strategies between the two instructional methods.
"Unfortunately the second-year French language exam contained the wrong question and dossier for the composition part of the exam," said Dr David McCallam, the head of the department.
This exam contained 31 questions on evolution (44/104 total pts or 42.3%) and 37 questions on diversity of organisms (56/104 pts or 53.8%).
Economics students at Exeter University have filed formal complaints after an end of course exam contained "errors" including spelling mistakes, they say.
Each exam contained five questions.
