Fiji Now Examination Mark Scaling Marks scaling in exam has been a topic that has baffled lots of uninformed people. We now have a very good person at the helm of the Ministry of Education in Dr. Reddy. Please Sir, could you enlighten those who believe that marks of students who score high marks are scaled and added to those who score low marks. Please tell them that it doesnt work like that. The marking business is pretty much another relic of colonialism. Time to boot it !!! On scaling, be assured the high marks of some students are not added to the low marks of other students. The main purpose of scaling is to obtain consistency across subjects, and between markers. In this way the average score in Maths, for example, is scaled to be the same as the average score in English, or if not the same, it is scaled to a pre-determined pass rate, i.e., the proportion of students who will pass each exam. This is where scaling can be contentious because it assumes all subjects are not equal, and that some are easier or harder than others. Scaling is also sometimes used on trial exam papers to ensure reasonable consistency between markers in each subject. Thus, examiners whose marks are consistently much high or lower than those of other markers are scaled down or up to bring them in line with other markers. If there were no scaling, results could be very unfair because they would depend on which subject a student took and which marker marked his or her paper.
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:04:49 +0000
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