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September 2010

Online evaluation sparks revolution

By Raman Jokhakar
Tarunkumar G. Singhal
Chartered Accountants
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73 Online evaluation
sparks revolution

Engineering
students pursuing their PhDs needn’t fret over errors in their results anymore.
The Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has introduced online evaluation
of answerscripts for its PhD students from 2010-11.

On a pilot basis,
VTU has already scanned the 750 PhD answerscripts. If all goes well, it’ll be
extended to MTech and MBA courses, too.

Manual evaluation
leaves multiple scope for errors. In case of multiple solutions, the evaluator
will have the freedom to decide. The process take only a few minutes and the
scripts get stored in the system. A software developed exclusively for digital
evaluation helps the evaluator open the answer booklet with just a mouse-click.
Next, the screen displays a series of register numbers. The evaluator can have
his pick. The question for the particular answer is displayed on the screen,
along with the scheme of evaluation. This also allows two evaluators to check
the same answerscript simultaneously. The final evaluator draws an average. In
case of a difference of 15 marks or more, the third evaluator reassesses the
script.

(Source : The Times of India, dated 15-8-2010)

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