| Role | Does | Never does |
|---|---|---|
| Student | Works down one packet | Sees an answer key |
| Supervisor | Runs the day, times tests, checks work | Assigns a grade. Guesses. Allows a re-do |
| Marker | Grades everything, keeps the record | — |
Supervisor and marker are different people here, and do not share a first language. That is not a quirk to work around; it is the constraint the document set is designed for.
If the roles collapse into one person, the documents still work — the supervisor sheet simply becomes a checklist for yourself. Keep the split anyway. It forces you to write down the rules instead of holding them in your head, which is what makes a program auditable.
Printed at the foot of every supervisor sheet, in both languages:
If something goes wrong, stop and call the marker. Do not guess at a grade, do not allow a re-do, and do not allow anything to be looked up during a test.
Three failure modes, named explicitly, because each one is invisible afterwards.
The boundary that protects the record.
A household accumulates its own standards. They are legitimate and they improve the work. They are also not the accrediting body’s rules, and must never move an accredited score.
Implementation:
Worked example. The student omits units on measurement answers. The house rule requires them, and worksheets use a two-box answer format (number + unit) so an omission looks incomplete rather than merely wrong. On a graded paper, a missing unit costs nothing, because the publisher’s table does not list it.
The rule shapes practice. It does not touch scores. Those are different systems.
Some graded items are cheap to perform and expensive to arrange — recorded oral readings needing a quiet room, a phone and an email.
Scattering them across their nominal lesson days means three setups and three chances to forget. They are batched onto shipping day instead, in one session, as a documented standing rule.
The consequence worth writing down: a passed lesson number is not a missed deadline. Without that stated explicitly, a tracker will report overdue work that is not overdue, and the false alarm erodes trust in every other alarm it raises.