A GRADING HELP JOHN M. MICHENER, HIGHSCAOOL, WICHITA.KANSAS The questions on the new standard tests, such as for chemistry and physics, generally have blanks to be filled in with a word or two, words to be underlined, etc. When such tests are on printed or mimeographed form, then, by the use of a sheet of celluloid, the work of grading such a paper becomes extremely easy. The method described here was used in the Army during the last war in grading tests, but the writer has never seen a description of it in print. Get a sheet of celluloid, such as is used for automobile curtain windows, about 8 inches by 12 inches. Such a sheet will cost about 20 cents. Lay this on top of your test paper with enough of the sheet extending above the top of the paper so that you can hold it in your left hand, and with enough paper left uncovered on the right so that grades can be put there. Then write with your pen on the sheet above the blanks the word or words that are needed to fill in the blanks properly. If answering the questions necessitates simply underlining the proper word, then place a line on your sheet under that word. I t is now very easy to grade any paper. Simply lay the marked sheet over the paper to be graded so that guide points previously placed on the sheet coincide with some chosen word on the paper. The student should have the same word under the word on the sheet or a line under the line drawn on the celluloid sheet to have answered the question correctly. The above method is the easiest that has come to our attention. The whole paper is before your eyes, if you care to glance a t it. The answers on the celluloid bring your attention to the critical points in the questions and then correct answers and the answers given are close together for easy and accurate comparison. Grading becomes a matter of little skill and time and can be turned over to a person unfamiliar with the subject, with the assurance that the grading will be done correctly and easily. The ink can he washed off easily with a wet cloth and then the sheet is ready to be used again. We find the method so satisfactory that we mimeograph all of our tests, so as to be able to use this method of grading the papers.
