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title: "Assessments at Scale"
artifact: "highlights"
resource_person: "Prof. Madhavan Mukund"
resource_person_role: "Director and Professor of Computer Science, Chennai Mathematical Institute; National Coordinator of the Indian Computing Olympiad."
vertical: "assessment"
module: "Evaluations"
lesson: "Assessments at Scale"
lesson_key: "assessments-at-scale"
source: "GuruSetu original"
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# Assessments at Scale: Highlights

**Resource person:** Prof. Madhavan Mukund - Director and Professor of Computer Science, Chennai Mathematical Institute; National Coordinator of the Indian Computing Olympiad.

1. Assessment can diagnose learning, improve teaching, certify achievement, assign grades and sometimes rank candidates.
2. Machine-scored questions can test application and reasoning when they are built around real misconceptions.
3. Every stem and option needs checking: a small wording change can alter the correct answer.
4. Multiple-correct questions can reduce guessing and support carefully defined partial credit.
5. Numbers, sequences, proof gaps, staged cases and programs can all provide machine-scored evidence.
6. Students must have had a fair chance to learn what each item tests.
7. Writing a precise question is also a check on the teacher's own understanding.