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With FreeText Author, the mark
scheme panel has been designed to
resemble a traditional paper-based mark scheme layout, with
lists of acceptable and unacceptable top-level mark scheme
answers. You can add or delete mark scheme answers using the
mark scheme answer toolbar.
In the model
answer list you can enter a number of model answers for
each top-level mark scheme answer. These model answers represent
specific acceptable phrasings or wordings for the corresponding
mark scheme answer, and are the basis from which the templates
are generated. Template generation is automated - you just
have to specify which are the keywords for each model answer.
The synonym
editor allows you to add synonyms for the model answer
keywords. You can enter your own synonyms, and you can select
from lists of synonyms suggested by the authoring tool. The
authoring tool provides three list of suggestions:
- Suggestions which were automatically
derived from analysing other model answers. For example,
if you have specified 'A' as a synonym of 'B' in another
model answer, then 'B' will be suggested as a synonym for
'A' (and vice versa) when viewing any other model answer.
- Suggestions from the thesaurus.
- Suggestions obtained by analysing
the list of responses, looking for words which have been
used in the same way as the current keyword
At any time you can computer mark sample
responses using the mark scheme you have created. The response
list will be updated in real time as the responses are marked.
Responses which have been matched will be shown in green with
a tick icon, responses which have not been matched will be
shown in red with a cross icon, as shown here.
FreeText Author also includes a marking wizard
to help you refine the mark scheme, providing information
on why responses are not being matched. See here
for screenshots.
When you have finished refining your mark
scheme, you can export it to the FreeText Web Service, ready
for use.
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