- Post-Exam Feedback
How much class time do you spend going over the exam afterwards? What do you discuss (e.g., the entire exam, the most difficult problems, how the exam was scored)? How specifically do you discuss student responses to exam questions after they have been returned? What information do you convey to students about score distributions? Do you give them access to an exam key? What other types of feedback do you give them about their exam performance? (Do you write comments on the exams, correct their mistakes, or just indicate points? Do you consider students as losing points for mistakes or as gaining points with correct answers?)
I try to write helpful comments on students' exams, but I do less of this when I am teaching more than 100 students per term. I do usually post exam solutions on a website, and I encourage students to check those answers before coming to me with questions about why they did not receive more credit on a question. I do not spend much class time going over an exam, although I will spend some time addressing issues of common misunderstanding. Sometimes I tell students the fine-number summary of exam scores, but sometimes I just tell them the mean and median. I encourage students who do poorly on an exam to come and discuss it with me, but few do.
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