each time i give an examination, i number the test booklets and then post the results, with a frequency distribution, according to booklet number. this past term i also started e-mailing the distribution to everybody in the class. i have always considered this a secure system. i am beginning to wonder!!!! it might be secure, but is it legal?
a related query: i distribute the examinations, go over them in class, but then collect them as "my property." i do get a small amount of agg from some students (i teach only graduate students) who want the examinations returned to them. i tell them they can come to my office and go over the examination at their leisure. no more then 20% of the class typically takes me up on the invitation. BTW, i change some of the exam items each year and keep using some questions for a kind of calibration, using a criterion referenced standard for marking. i try to keep what earns an A as just about constant from year to year. what do other people do? thanks. Jerry Dallal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Dennis Roberts wrote: > > > i have not heard any convincing argument made that using something like the > > last 4 SS digits (which has been ruled to be legal) is harmful in any way > > to students who just want to get their results > > Maybe not harmful but it's static, which means that once > compromised, always compromised. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
