Quality Control on Final Exams Processing at Examination Center of Universitas Terbuka-Indonesia

Main Authors: Sulistyawati, Eko Yuliastuti Endah, Susilo, Adhi
Format: Proceeding PeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2017
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Online Access: http://repository.ut.ac.id/8826/1/20B0003.pdf
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Daftar Isi:
  • One indicator to measure competency of learning out comes from student of Universitas Terbuka (UT) is the final exams(FE). As part of the student learning system, the FE is the only process that can be fully controlled by the UT. Therefore, UT performs quality control to maintain the credibility and validity of the results of FE. One attempt to maintain the validity of the results of FE is controlling the processing of examination results in UT Examination Centre. There are three types of exam results at UT, the exam answer sheet (EAS), exam answers book(EAB), and exam assessment sheet. This article will discuss quality control on EAS processing. Quality control on EAS processing consists on many steps: EAS admission, examination and determination of the validity of rules and sanction violations of test administration, scanning, matching examinees student data and personal data, giving sanction violations of rules and administration, scoring, and grading. During the semester exam 2016. 2, EAS which were process data UT Examination Centre were amounted to 1.326.702 pieces. With the number of permanent employees 15 people, each semester, the Examination Center recruits temporary labors to process the exam results from 739 test points. To get qualified temporary labor, then Examination Center must do the selection. For selected temporary labors, trainings were conducted in order to work according the required qualifications from UT. Providing quality control of test results processing and temporary labor recruitment process, have be enable to improve the performance of the Examination Center. It can be seen by the exam results available in earlier stage and the decreasing of problems related to the processing of exam results each semester.