Suggestion 207. Return a "perfect" exam along with the corrected exam

IF YOU WANT TO:

• Keep students informed of their progress

• Help students improve their performance

Returning a "perfect" exam to students along with their own corrected exams.

A professor of business administration likes to provide a great deal of feedback to students after exams as a way of re-emphasizing the themes of the course.

"I generally spend about half the class period walking the students through a `perfect' midterm that I distribute to students along with their own corrected exams. In this way I try to explain the ways in which most of their own responses differ from what I consider to be a perfect answer of solution. I also hope that it helps them to do better on the second exam."

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