Faculty Procedures for Testing and Assessment

Please note the following instructions to insure the classes’ exam is scored correctly:

1. Please use original scanner answer sheets only. Do not try to duplicate scanner forms.

2. If you would like scores by class section number, please have the students fill in their section # in columns labeled “1”, “2”, “3”, and “4”. Since all 4 columns need to be filled out and recitations are 3 digits long, decide whether the students should fill the columns out:

• Right-justified with leading zero bubbled in column 1, or

• Left-justified with a trailing zero bubbled in column 4, or

• You may separate the sheets by sections into different piles.

3. Tests should be submitted with an answer key filled out on a bubble sheet. If you have more than one scale to be graded, submit an answer key for each scale (maximum of 4 scales) PLUS one combined key with one response filled in per question to serve as the master key.

4. If you have more than one correct answer to certain individual questions, please submit additional keys each with an alternative answer to those questions. If you use this option, please note that not as many scales can be used. Although your keys have additional answers, student responses are limited to one per question. Therefore, it is not possible to design a question which instructs the student to answer “all possible choices”, or “as many as are correct”. A separate key for each point weight is necessary, and there is a maximum of four keys.

5. It is possible to give essay questions and have the score from those questions added to the test. If you give essay questions, you may grade these ahead of time and fill in the score in the CODE area as a whole number. This score can then be added to the student’s total on the objective section. Please fill in the full block (a score of 3, for example, should be filled in as 003). This option reduces the number of additional scales that may be used to three. A test may score to a maximum of 999.99 points.

6. Please note that the scanner does not read letters. The circles must be filled in completely, or the scanner will not read names, ID’s or answers.

7. If you need to mark sheets for your own purposes, please use the very bottom of the front page under the bubbles. If you need to mark any other place, please use a red, green, or yellow magic marker with caution.

8. Please collect the sheets so that all exams have the cut corner at the same end (see bottom left hand corner).