This article on class examinations concentrates on giving teachers the knowledge they need to administer an examination to their class successfully from the start to the finish. It looks at how the teacher goes about starting the examination; what he/she does as the students do the examination and how to wind up the whole process with as little stress as possible to all participants.
*Line up students outside the room.
* Give any instructions they need, e.g. where to sit, how to ask questions.
* Students are told what they are allowed to bring into the room.
* Indicate any special instructions as well as the time for the test.
* Start the exam reminding them of the time length and the actual finishing time.
* Discourage borrowing of equipment. If it is necessary, the teacher should organize and supervise it.
* Mark your class roll. Check this later against the actual exam papers you get as occasionally a student may deliberately withhold their exam paper but claim they handed it in and you must have lost it.
* Don’t allow students to have any other items on their desk except those items needed for the examination.
* Simply walk up behind them and watch if you suspect that a student is attempting to cheat. Ask them if they have a problem to give the impression you are aware of what they are trying to do.
*Warn the class that time is almost up, i.e. 5/10 minutes to go.
* That “stop work” means no more writing, just sorting out of the pages, stapling.
* Remind the class to check their name on every page.
* Remind the class that no talking is allowed until all papers are collected or until dismissed and outside the room.
* Collect the exam papers row by row at the front door where you staple the pages together, if necessary.
* Count the number of papers you collect as you go to make sure all students hand in an exam paper even if they did nothing except write their name.
* Collect all excess exam papers and writing paper. (This can be done during the exam).
You will find, as you become familiar with these steps, that your students are less stressed; the examination runs smoothly; no examination papers are lost and you walk out of the examination room feeling the glow of a job well done.
By: CHARINA C. DIZON | T-I | Mariveles NHS Poblacion Mariveles, Bataan
