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 spend at least one-half class period providing post-examination feedback. I provide each student with a scoring key that provides the solutions or model solutions to all items. Also, I provide students with item indices (e.g., item difficulty, item discrimination, point-biserial correlation) and test score information (e.g., means, standard deviations, skewness, kurtosis) so that students can convert their scores to z-scores and percentile ranks. Providing these statistics helps students to reinforce what they have learned in class and see their immediate applications. I also write comments on the examination forms and correct students' mistakes when appropriate or necessary. I consider students as losing points for mistakes made, rather than gaining points with correct answers.

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