>>Please, god, tell me that you were a TA in a public school as part of
>>some sort of externship or something. I know that it isn't entirely
>>uncommon, but whenever I hear of genuine for-real collegiate level
>>courses using multiple-choice scantron-style tests I just want to weep
>>for the state of higher education.
>
>The intro-level classes with 150 students often use scantrons for the
>exams, because when you're teaching three sections of that plus two
>classes which require actual manual grading of advanced (300-level)
>exams, and they're classes everyone in the business school has
>to take, it's just not practical otherwise.

They're also not used exclusively for coursework in all settings. The University of Maine uses Scantron forms for the mandatory course evaluation at the end of each semester, too, which presumably some hapless workstudy drone at whatever they're calling the Office of Professional Standards these days has to collect from all the department offices and go run someplace.

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