Reviewing control items in SecureMarker

Control items in SecureMarker are pre-marked items that have been approved by senior examiners and are used to test whether examiners are marking within accepted tolerances. You can review and check the quality of control items in the Quality Control screen before they are presented to examiners.

You must first create control items in order to review them. For more information, read Creating control items in SecureMarker.

This article explains how to review control items in SecureMarker.

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1. Go to the Quality Control screen

To view the Quality Control screen, select Quality Control on the top navigation bar.

2. Select a qualification and exam

Select the Qualification/Exam menu on the navigation bar.

3. Select an item

Select an item or item group in the Items grid.

4. Select Create CIs

Select Create CIs.

5. View submitted CI

In the Create / Review Control Items screen, you can view responses that have been submitted as control items for the selected item or item group.

You can view the following information for the selected item or item group:

• Exam – Displays the name of the exam.
• Item – Displays the name of the item or item group.
• Response ID – Displays the visible response’s unique ID number.
• CIs required – Displays the number of control items recommended for the item or item group.
• CIs created – Displays the number of control items already created and approved for the item or item group.
• CIs marked and ready for review – Displays the number of control items created and awaiting approval for the item or item group.

The Mark Awarded field displays the mark awarded to the control item by the examiner.

You can view and edit feedback text in the Examiner Feedback dialog. Select Edit to make changes to the feedback text. For more information, read Creating a control item in SecureMarker.

6. Make a decision

You can agree or disagree with each submitted control item. This allows you to decide which control items are suitable to be presented to examiners.

Select Agree to allow the control item to be presented to examiners for marking.

Select Disagree to prevent the control item from being presented to examiners. Any marks awarded to the response are saved, but it will not be presented to an examiner for marking.

Select Discard CI to prevent the control item from being presented to examiners and also to delete the mark from the response. The response returns the pool of unmarked responses and must be reassigned to an examiner for marking. For more information, read Setting quotas for examiners in SecureMarker.