Keys Corner

A system of marking exams that is aimed at making the process faster and more efficient is being introduced in the UK:

Pupils’ complete exam scripts will be scanned into a computer file by the company managing the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA) examination board’s computer marking, Milton Keynes-based Data and Research Services.

Candidates’ answers will then be divided up between questions requiring longer responses and those with just one-word answers.

The scanned one-word answers will then be emailed to offices in India where workers will type them up so they can be marked by a computer programme back in the UK, AQA said…

...AQA said each single-word answer would be typed in by two people and any discrepancies would be picked up by the computer programme and investigated.

Perhaps someone can explain – convincingly – why that (scanning the answers, picking out the one-word answers, mailing them to India and double-keying them into a computer, manually investigating the discrepancies) is more efficient than marking the one-word answers on the spot in the UK?

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