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Generating exam questions is the single most useful thing AI does for a teacher, because writing questions is slow, repetitive, and easy to check. The saving…
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Two claims about AI in teaching are both wrong. One is that it will replace the explaining, marking and knowing-your-students that make up the job. The other…
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After an exam, most tutors calculate one number: the class average. It is the easiest to compute and the hardest to act on. An average of 62% is compatible…
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The reason to care about copying in a tutoring exam is not moral. It is that the exam was a measurement, and a copied paper corrupts the measurement: you plan…
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Marking drifts. It drifts within one pile, because the standard set by the first five scripts becomes the standard for the rest, and it drifts with fatigue, so…
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Mock exams are among the most expensive things a tutor does: a full session of teaching time, plus hours of marking. Whether that investment returns anything…
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The syllabus assumes a starting point. Your group is somewhere else. Every teacher knows this, and most find out where the group actually is around the fifth…
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Ask a teacher to make an exam harder and the paper usually gets longer: more questions, more parts, more writing. Students find it more punishing and the…
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Every experienced tutor has hundreds of good questions. Almost none of them can be found. They are in last year's papers, in a folder on a laptop, in a…
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A multiple-choice question is supposed to measure whether a student knows something. A surprising share of them measure whether a student is good at…
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There are two reasons to test a student. One is to record what they know at the end. The other is to find out what they do not know while there is still time…
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