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ssaltz@cabell.vcu.edu (Steven A. Saltzberg) writes:

#Currently Virginia Commonwealth University has a policy of giving
#the Optical Scanning sheets used for test grading out (to the faculty
#administering the test) free of charge (actually the computer center 
#picks up the cost).  This is getting a bit expensive.  So we are
#evaluating letting the student store sell the opscan sheets (right 
#next to the Blue Books).  The concern is that the opscan sheets will
#be so damaged that the scanner can't read them.

Are you kidding me?  Make the students PAY to take their exams?
Isn't that what tuition is for?!?!??!?!  Give me a break.  I don't know
how that would go over at VCU but here at Rutgers there would be more
than a few pissed off students storming your office...


dave

In article <1992Oct5.174939.14312@cabell.vcu.edu>, ssaltz@cabell.vcu.edu (Steven A. Saltzberg) writes:
> 
> Currently Virginia Commonwealth University has a policy of giving
> the Optical Scanning sheets used for test grading out (to the faculty
> administering the test) free of charge (actually the computer center 
> picks up the cost).  This is getting a bit expensive.  So we are
> evaluating letting the student store sell the opscan sheets (right 
> next to the Blue Books).  The concern is that the opscan sheets will
> be so damaged that the scanner can't read them.
> 
> Does any one out there have any advice?


Question, do you charge students for the blue books required to take exams? If
not then the ionstructors have budget accounts to pay for the things and you
should charge their budget source for the cost of the forms. Options would be:


1) Stock them as part of your administrative supples (in the same manner as 
you stock other office/instructional supplies).

2) Arrange with your accounting/financial services group to have the ability
to charge sources for money and whenever the instructors get forms, charge 
them for them directly.

3) Arrange for it to be carried as a line item on YOUR budget and continue with
the 'free' service.



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ssaltz@cabell.vcu.edu (Steven A. Saltzberg) writes:
>Currently Virginia Commonwealth University has a policy of giving
>the Optical Scanning sheets used for test grading out (to the faculty
>administering the test) free of charge (actually the computer center 
>picks up the cost).  This is getting a bit expensive.  So we are
>evaluating letting the student store sell the opscan sheets (right 
>next to the Blue Books).  The concern is that the opscan sheets will
>be so damaged that the scanner can't read them.

>Does any one out there have any advice?
*----
It sounds like it's fraught with problems.  What do you do about
the individuals that fail to bring the sheet on exam day?  How
do you keep students from turning them into crib sheets (since they're
read by machine, chances are that no other person will look
closely at them)?  And finally, consider why you started using
the scan system in the first place - it's cheaper and easier than
grading the old-fashioned way, when a human had to do the work.
It's not for the benefit of the student, but for the benefit
of the department.  So let the departments pay.
--
	Mike Berger
	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
	AT&TNET     217-244-6067
	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu

In article <Oct.5.18.57.15.1992.8484@athos.rutgers.edu> pirmann@athos.rutgers.edu (David Pirmann) writes:
>
>Are you kidding me?  Make the students PAY to take their exams?

A number of the universities/junior colleges around here have been doing
this for some time, and the trend appears to be continuing.  It seems the
only thing higher about the education is the price...