I know this is a late response to this thread, but when I had large classes at Northwestern, I would take the scantrons of everyone who showed up to review them, and photocopy them. I kept the original, and gave the students a copy, which I allowed them to keep for their records. I never had a problem. And no one ever found a scantron error.
Wendi K. Born, Ph.D. Licensed Clinical Psychologist & Assistant Professor of Psychology Baker University 618 8th Street PO Box 65 Baldwin City, KS 66006-0065 (785) 594-8437 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Pollak, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 7:31 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [SPAM] - [tips] RE: scantron problem or integrity problem? - Email found in subject Beth wrote "I used to use Scantrons in huge classes and never had a problem with them. No one ever challenged it. For a Scantron to make mistakes on just one student's (out of 120), especially given his earlier poor performance, I'd say there's no way the Scantron was wrong. And the fact that he didn't even take you up on the offer to address it until classes were over says a lot as well." I agree with Beth. Because I am jealous of my class time, I ask students who wish to review their exams to do so in my office. When they come in, I'll take the student's Scantron answer sheet and re-score it with a red pen so the student & I can tell at a glance which questions he/she got wrong. In 30 years I have NEVER found the Scantron to make the kind of error you describe. I've occasionally found errors on the answer key due to my own carelessness but none do to the Scantron. Ed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Dept. of Psychology, West Chester University of Pennsylvania Home Page: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/epollak/home.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Husband, father, grandfather, biopsychologist, bluegrass fiddler and herpetoculturist...... in approximate order of importance. --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang= english --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
