Education: Green pen regulations and calculating grades for supplementary students
The Ministry of Education announced the adoption of a new and precise set of protocols within the "Control and Control" committees, aimed at improving the efficiency of grade recording processes and ensuring absolute fairness in evaluating students' academic achievement. The directives included granting the "green pen" (a term used to refer to a specific committee or committee) sovereign and exclusive authority to review and amend final grades, thus establishing the principle of "the student's best interest" as the decisive and binding criterion at all stages of correction and review.
The context of development and transparency in education
This step is part of the Ministry's ongoing strategy to develop the assessment and measurement system, as educational institutions strive to reduce the gap between student performance and their recorded grades. Historically, manual recording processes faced challenges related to unintentional human error, necessitating the establishment of robust mechanisms to standardize review criteria. These regulations reflect the Ministry's commitment to enhancing transparency and reliability in test results, in line with its objectives of improving educational outcomes.
The mechanism for using the green pen and the prohibition of erasing
The new regulations precisely defined the use of colors, restricting the use of green ink exclusively to final review processes following the initial correction. The ministry mandated that reviewers, when needing to amend a grade, follow specific steps to ensure legality. These steps include lightly crossing out the old grade while remaining legible, writing the new grade in both numerals and words, and affixing the reviewer's clear signature. The use of white eraser is strictly prohibited to guarantee the integrity and legal authenticity of the document.
The system's bias in favor of the student
The instructions established a golden principle that favors the student in cases of recording errors. The regulations stipulate that the "incorrect" grade be recorded and immediately adopted if it is the higher grade and in the student's favor, while it is immediately corrected if the recorded grade is unfair and less than what the student deserves. Regarding the issue of multiple answers, the Ministry directed that the "arithmetic mean" of all answers be calculated for essay questions, while selecting more than one alternative for objective questions is considered an incorrect answer deserving of zero.
Taking into account the psychological circumstances of students completing their studies
In a humanitarian and educational gesture, the regulations demonstrated considerable flexibility towards students taking supplementary or final exams. The instructions allowed for awarding half the marks for a correct answer that the student crossed out, provided it was clearly legible. This decision takes into account the psychological pressure and stress that students may experience during this critical stage, which could lead them to cross out correct answers by mistake or due to hesitation.
Expected impact and quality assurance
This meticulous organization is expected to reduce the number of appeals submitted by students and parents, as these mechanisms provide additional guarantees of accurate results. The procedural guide also emphasizes the need for "control and verification" committees to conduct precise matching between electronic recordings and answer sheets, mandating random reviews of sample papers and a thorough review of any student's paper that did not receive a perfect score, to ensure it is free of any errors that could affect their academic future.
