Test+Correction+Procedure+-+US+History

Students in US History will have the opportunity to make corrections to the objective portion of their exams to earn points back on their tests. For students to earn points back, they must do the following for each of the questions they answered incorrectly:

1. State why you put the answer that you did. 2. State what makes your answer incorrect. 3. State what the correct answer is and what makes that the correct answer.

Students may use any resources at their disposal to make corrections to the exam as long as they work individually. (Students may not work with each other, nor will the instructor offer any suggestions as to why a particular answer is incorrect.)

Along these lines, there are a few other procedures that must be followed: 1. All of this will be done in your US History classroom. Tests may NOT be taken from the classroom. You may work on these before school, after school, during lunch, or during a contact period. 2. Corrections are to be uploaded to the Google Form - Test Corrections no later than 14 calendar days following the exam date. (Not 14 school days, however, extended breaks do not count toward this 14 day allotment.) Failure to do so will result in the student not receiving credit for the corrections (and thus, your original test score will be entered into the grade book). 3. This must be an individual exercise. If the instructor suspects that students have been collaborating (inside or outside of class), no credit will be given to those students for corrections. (In other words, make sure that your answers are your own.) 4. Citations are not required for this assignment, but all answers must be in your own words. Acts of plagiarism will be disciplined in accordance with the KIS Academic Honesty Policy.

The maximum amount of points one can earn back is determined by the original score that a student earned on the original exam, as indicated below:
 * 85-97% on the test - possibility of improving to a 98% after completing the assignment
 * 61-84% on the test - possibility of improving to a 95% after completing the assignment
 * 51-60% on the test - possibility of improving to an 85% after completing the assignment
 * 00-50% on the test - possibility of improving to a 70% after completing the assignment