Introducing ZipGrade: No Need to Check Papers at Home!

by: J. Policarpio

ZipGrade App

Last March 15, 2013, I have shared a blog about "Making Multiple-Choice Exam Easy to Check" which discusses on how to manually rate a Multiple-Choice Question (MCQ) Exam easily & conveniently.

How about grading your MCQ Exam just using the camera of your android (or iOS) phone? What if you can have already the Item Analysis just after after grading all the Answer Sheets of your students???

What? - Yes, fellow teachers, you've  read it right!

All of  these are now possible with the use of a mobile application called ZipGgrade.

First, you have to download the ZipGrade at Google Play Store for Android users and at App Store for iOS users. Explore the Application.

Second, download the Answer Sheet to their website. Answer sheets are available in multiple sizes and formats to meet different teacher needs. For general use, use the PDF version. The PNG versions are useful for customizing or importing into other documents. For best scanning results, print on standard white copier paper.

ZipGgrade Interface

Third, prepare your Key Answer.

You can easily input the Key Answer to your Exam

That's it. After administering the exam, you can now start checking the papers using the App and the camera of your phone!

And the best thing after grading all the Answer Sheets is the Item Analysis.

After grading the Students' Responses, you can view the general stat of your exam like Mean, SD, Min & Max.

The best thing about this App is it comes with an instant Item Analysis of the Exam!

The application is free which comes with monthly scan limit of 100 papers per month. The best thing is it works offline. For unlimited scan per year you have to pay a minimal subscription fee.


References:
Making Multiple-Choice Exam Easy to Check. (15 March 2013). https://tsoktok.blogspot.com/2013/03/making-multiple-choice-exam-easy-to.html

ZipGrade Website. https://www.zipgrade.com/

Making Multiple-Choice Exam Easy to Check

by: J. Policarpio

According to Wikipedia, multiple choice is a form of assessment in which respondents are asked to select the best possible answer (or answers) out of the choices from a list. 

I will not be discussing about how to develop or what are the advantages or disadvantages of using such kind of test - it's another topic and i think educators are well-versed about it. This post is about making your multiple choice exam easy to check.

I've got this idea when I was in another College, I was at the Registrar and the staff there are checking the Entrance Examination of the applicants. I've asked if they have a template for checking but they've replied that they have the difficulty in punching the hole. Their idea was to punch the hole for the correct answer in the answer sheet, usually this is done using 'katol'. 

My suggestion was what if we do the other way around, instead of the correct answer, let's consider the wrong answers! - and fortunately, it's successful! Here's the step-by-step procedure;

Step 1: Test Construction

Test Construction

Step 2: Prepare the Answer Sheet

Preparing the Answer Sheet

Step 3: Prepare the Negative

What is the Negative?
Using your answer sheet, shade those letters that corresponds to the wrong answers. That means that the one left unshaded is the CORRECT answers, thus the name used is Negative.

Preparing the Negative

Don't forget the important stats at the bottom 

Step 4: Photocopy the Negative in a clear Acetate

Make sure that your photocopied Acetate is exactly the same as your original Negative, not enlarged or reduced.

Step 5: Check their Answer Sheets Using your Acetate

Do this by overlaying the acetate to their answer sheet. If your student is perfect the overlays of acetate and the answer sheet should look dark or black. This is because in their answer sheet they have shaded the CORRECT answer and in your Negative, you have shaded the WRONG answers. If one letter in an item appears white, that means that they have shaded the wrong answer. Count these letters that appeared white, these are the mistakes and deduct it to the number of items and that's the score!