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CXC to introduce e-marking
Even as moves are being made to appease concerns about the introduction of e-marking of examination papers, the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) is taking all necessary steps to have this novel initiative become a reality in the Caribbean.
In doing so, CXC Pro-Registrar Glenroy Cumberbatch, during a meeting with local head teachers recently, assured that e -marking will be consistent with live marking and therefore there will be no disadvantages to candidates.
Glenroy Cumberbatch, CXC Pro-Registrar
He explained that markers who will participate in the e-marking process will be trained on how to use relevant marking tools, even as he pointed out that training will include full familiarization with the question papers and their marking schemes. According to Cumberbatch, the markers will also be given opportunities to practice ‘dummy’ marking to help them be comfortable with the marking tools and be able to apply the marking scheme.
Moreover, the markers will be required to take a qualifying marking test, said Cumberbatch, who disclosed that only markers who meet the requirements will be allowed to perform live marking of candidates’ scripts. And during live marking, the Pro-Registrar said that markers will be regularly monitored for quality and accuracy.
E-marking, compared to Live-marking, he insisted, provides an opportunity to monitor marking in real-time and where necessary provide the intervention to ensure that all candidates are marked objectively and fairly. He noted too that “we have also examined the research related to the experience of other examination boards that conduct e-marking and for the 2013 exams we parallel marked two subjects – the same papers (actual candidate scripts) in Integrated Science and Physics were marked via e-marking and also marked via live table marking.”
For the purpose of this experiment the live marking- that is the actual marking exercise- was considered to be the gold standard with which the e-marking was compared, according to Cumberbatch. For each subject (Integrated Science Paper 02 and Physics Paper 02 separately) the two sets of marks assigned to the candidates were correlated to determine the extent of agreement between them, he explained.
And according to the Pro-Registrar, a high correlation in the region of 0.80 to 0.90 would indicate that there was a high degree of consistency between the scores awarded to candidates under the two conditions of marking. “For candidates’ total scores the correlation between the two types of marking was greater than 0.97, ´and this Cumberbatch noted, suggests that it can be concluded “that live marking is consistent with e-marking and that there was no disadvantage to candidates.”
And even as moves are being made to revamp the process of marking examination papers, Cumberbatch disclosed that CXC is continually paying close attention to School Based Assessments (SBAs). He disclosed that although at present CXC does not have any means of tracking past SBA submissions, the use of past work by prior candidates will still translate to plagiarism. “We have also researched software for plagiarism detection and will be moving to utilise this in our SBA review…It is also intended to make this available to schools to assist in moderation of the work presented,” said Cumberbatch.
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