Correcting (mid-term) examinations

China

Beijing

For help correcting multiple choice examinations please contact Risbo, an independent research institute linked to the Social Science Faculty of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. To schedule an appointment you can best contact the Risbo secretariat via email (tentamenverwerking@risbo.eur.nl) or by phone – 010 408 2124.

A few points to take in consideration when correcting examinations and determining overall course grades:

All teaching staff members are expected to be aware of and operate in accordance of the Teaching and Examination Regulations as established by the RSM Examination Board. The Examination Board has developed an online platform called ‘Teaching Net,’ accessible via RSM Intranet, which features detailed descriptions of many of these regulations (such as the minimum grade requirement, rounding of grades to the nearest tenth of a decimal, validity of partial grades, etc).
All teaching staff members are required to implement the grading scales (cesuur) as determined by the Examination Board when determining grades. A check should always be done to ensure that the regulations have not been violated, even if the Risbo services have been used to aid in examination grade calculations.
Teaching staff members are expected to be aware of any remaining regulations and procedures established by the Examination Board and/or Programme Management as outlined in mails from the executive directors and/or via the Teaching Net online platform

There are two rules that we would especially like to emphasize:

- Please note that grades should always be calculated using a scale of 0.0-10.0.

- A minimum grade requirement rule applies for courses for which the overall grade is composed of multiple elements and not just an examination. This means that students must score at least a 4.5 on the examination in order to receive an overall grade for the course. If the examination grade is lower than a 4.5 than the student should receive an 'O' (= onvoldoende, which is Dutch for insufficient) as their overall grade. Examinations that can be taken only once per academic year, such as case reports and team assignments, are exempted from this rule.