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While grading the exam of a rather below-average student, I was amazed at the accuracy of his answers.
After the test the New York Times, always a stout supporter of accountability, bravely printed news accounts about teachers horrified by the instructions they were given for grading the exam.
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But in grading the exams, Dr. Platt found strong similarities among some of them, even verbatim repetition, down to the same typographical errors.
Tom Ewing, a spokesman for the Educational Testing Service in Lawrenceville, N.J., said that because of the prompt return of the package, there "shouldn't be any delay whatsoever" in grading the exams and reporting the scores.
Districts will have a year to figure out how to set up new systems for grading the exams, whether at different schools, by computer or at regional scoring centers.
"By the time I figure out what my students don't understand while grading the exams, it's too late to go back and change anything".
When the PDFs are available for posting (usually within 72 h of grading the exams), they are linked to the student's personal account in the course-management system.
In high stakes testing where e-Rater has been used, like grading the Graduate Record Exam, the writing samples are also scored by a human, they point out.
As a result, the writing, administering and grading of the exam now mobilize a heaving bureaucracy.
Officials said Harcourt would grade the exams regardless of how students filled in the answers.
On one hand they're being told they're stupid, then when they get exceptional grades, the exams are too easy.
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