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 (**this includes questions where students received partial credit)**:

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. Tests may NOT be taken from the classroom. Work on this in class or during another time in the school day (e.g. contact time). 2. Corrections are to be submitted using this form: US History Spring 2013 Test Corrections. It may be a good idea to write your corrections in Pages, Evernote, etc. and then copy/paste them into the form when you are ready to submit. 3. Students will have 1-2 weeks (7-14 calendar days, not school days) from the day the tests were returned to students to complete the corrections. Those who do not complete the assignment within the assigned time period (the teacher will announce in class) will keep their original score and will not be allowed to improve to a higher score. 4. 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.) 5. 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:
 * For the last test
 * Students who score between 55-94% can improve their score to a 95 through test corrections; students who score 54% or less can improve their score to an 80
 * Original
 * 40-95% on the test - possibility of improving to a 95% after completing the assignment
 * 0-39% on the test - possibility of improving to an 80% after completing the assignment