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Scoring the Trig*Star Exam |
If you are giving the exam by yourself, you may find it easier to take all of the exams home and score them at a later time. If there are two or more of you giving the exam, while one person is keeping the official time (collecting completed exams and marking the times on them), the other person could be scoring the exams.
Point values for each problem are shown on the exam. Points for each answer must be awarded as all or nothing. In other words, no partial credit is allowed for answers that are almost correct.
The rounding of the answers must be exact to the number of places specified. If linear answers are specified to be to the nearest hundredth and angular answers are specified to be to the nearest second then answers must be exactly to that value, otherwise that answer is completely wrong and no credit given for that answer.
The highest score determines the Trig*Star winner. If there are two or more students with the same high score then, the shortest time of the group with the highest scores determines the winner. Both the time and the high score are reported to the Trig*Star Committee to determine the State Trig*Star winner.
Students naturally want to know how they did on the exam, even if they didn't come out on top. Obviously (for the security of the exam) you cannot give copies of the exams back to the students, however you could give them their scores.
If you give a score sheet to the teacher, let them know about the above scoring policy and that scores will appear to be low. In other words, a student may have solved all problems correct, except for a few mistakes in rounding intermediate or final answers. With no partial credit given they may have a very low score of 0% to 50% depending on what answers they did get right. This may be discouraging to the student when they felt that they done a good job.
Scores will be artificially low, when compared to the normal academic way of scoring exams where some credit is given to partially correct solutions.When you see good problem solutions with slightly wrong answers, you may want to make an note and give this person an "Honorable Mention" at the award ceremony.
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