One of my duties as a fifth grade teacher was to go over every answer sheet for the end of level tests and the standardized test. If a student had slopped out of the circle )which the scanner would read as a wrong or extra answer on the other side of the paper), I would erase the part outside of the circle. If the pencil wass too light, I was to darken it. If a student had two answers on the same question, I was to seek out the student and show them the question, then ask which of the two answers they meant, then erase the other one.
All this had to be done in public, like in the media center with several teachers present, so that someone could monitor that I wasn’t changing any answers, just making sure that the answers would scan correctly.
As to Peter’s practicing filling in little ovals, exercises in doing just that were done every day for sevral weeks before the tests.
One of my duties as a fifth grade teacher was to go over every answer sheet for the end of level tests and the standardized test. If a student had slopped out of the circle )which the scanner would read as a wrong or extra answer on the other side of the paper), I would erase the part outside of the circle. If the pencil wass too light, I was to darken it. If a student had two answers on the same question, I was to seek out the student and show them the question, then ask which of the two answers they meant, then erase the other one.
All this had to be done in public, like in the media center with several teachers present, so that someone could monitor that I wasn’t changing any answers, just making sure that the answers would scan correctly.
As to Peter’s practicing filling in little ovals, exercises in doing just that were done every day for sevral weeks before the tests.
One of the reasons I decided to retire.