I made a mistake in some QuizSite test items. How can I make corrections so that students are graded fairly?
There is no perfectly fair way to repair the problem. It is important to handle the situation in a consistent way. There are at least four possible categories of students. They may have: • been penalized for correct answers. • been rewarded for wrong answers. • provided no answer for flawed questions. • not completed the activity at all. Here is one possible approach: • Let your students know that there are mistakes in the test. • Define a new activity with corrected test items. • Decide whether to ask all students to retake the test, or only those who did not provide answers to the bad test items. • Decide whether to count the best test score, or only the most recent. The best solution is to prevent this problem from occurring in the first place. You can decrease the chances of having errors by: • creating the test well in advance, and • having someone else review it. Also see the documentation on how to write better tests and test reliability.
