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Andrew Phan's avatar

I love the observation about the 2-mark explanation question. It seems like whenever we're trying to do too many things at once (in this case, marking reliability and authenticity of the responses) we often end up with the worst of both worlds.

The same thing can be said with subject knowledge and inquiry/problem solving/communication questions. Perhaps they should be evaluated separately so that a student's lack of communication skill doesn't prevent them from getting full marks on the subject knowledge part? But then we have the trade-off between the length of exams and the validity of the results.

What do you think Daisy?

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Daisy Christodoulou's avatar

Our experience in assessing writing has shown us that it is a complex skill in its own right. So if you are going to try and assess understanding of other subjects through extended writing, you have to be sure the students are able to write well first!

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