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Crowdmark supports two stage exams

Interface for matching two stage exams Interface for matching two stage exams

Crowdmark is a collaborative online grading and analytics platform. Until now collaboration has been focused on facilitators and graders who use the platform to grade student work. With the launch of support for two stage exams, we have extended assessment collaboration to include students. This most recent product improvement supports our ongoing mission to enrich learning by transforming assessment into a dialogue for improvement.

Instructors at five universities experimented with Crowdmark to grade two stage exams during 2014-2015. In a two stage exam, students first write an exam individually and then assemble into small groups and collaborate to answer similar or identical questions again. (Further information about two stage exams may be found following the links shared below.) Feedback from the instructors who led these experiments drove Crowdmark to improve and provide better support for two stage exams.

Matching multiple students to an assessment

The Crowdmark workflow includes a matching step: instructors associate a scanned image of an assessment booklet with the student who wrote the assessment. New flexibility allows instructors to match multiple students to an assessment. This improvement provides an elegant workflow to support two stage exams and other group assessments.

The ability to match assessments to multiple students has applications beyond two stage exams. Crowdmark can now be used to evaluate lab reports and other projects authored by a collaborating group of students.

Background: What’s a two stage exam?

Acknowledgements: I thank the following instructors for inspiring Crowdmark to support two stage exams:

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Crowdmark is the world’s premiere online grading and analytics platform, allowing educators to evaluate student assessments more effectively and securely than ever before. On average, educators experience up to a 75% productivity gain, providing students with prompt and formative feedback. This significantly enriches the learning and teaching experience for students and educators by transforming assessment into a dialogue for improvement.