>At 12:40 PM 10/21/96, Sharon Smith wrote:
>>2)We are launching into teaching courses via teleconferencing.Starting
>>Winter quarter we will be teaching at 5 sites. We are being told 1 class
>>could have 200 students. We are not supposed to use multiple choice tests
>>as per our accrediting agencies (not my choice for good testing anyway).
I know you have other concerns about this, but if you are worried about
grading the tons of exams you will have, I suggest you look at an article
in a past issue of the MAA's Focus. It dealt with the content of the
Japanese university entrance exams and it explained a very clever format
they use for machine grading the exams even though the answers are not
multiple choice. I think it was in an issue two years ago. (Maybe someone
on the list can give
us a reference. In a fit of Spring cleaning I tossed all of my past issues.)
Paul Casillas
Clark College
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Paul Casillas Email: casipa@clark.edu
Dept. of Mathematics, M.S. #3 Phone: (360) 992-2545
Clark College Fax: (360) 992-2870
Vancouver, WA 98663-3598 "Math - It does a body good."
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The Japanese University Entrance Examination appeared in the December 1992
issue of FOCUS.
Domenico Rosa
rosa@mail.teikyopost.edu