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partnership between UT and local governments at district level and the local
Office of National Education Agency that allows UT to use available school

classrooms and the recruitment of the school teachers to become examination
proctors.

The quality of examination depends not only on the quality of the test items
developed but also on the marking and processing of the examination·. Broadly

speaking, there are two kinds of examination processing and marking, i.e.,
computer-based processing for objective type tests and manual processing for

essay type tests. In the beginning, the computer-based examination processing
was conducted by the Computer Center of Universitas Indonesia (UI) . This

partnership with Ul was not only related to examination processing, but it also
further included the training of UT staff at the Computer Center so that

examination processing could later be conducted by the UT staff themselves.
Currently all the examination processing is conducted by the UT own Computer

Center.
For essay-type tests, the marking was carried out by the UT academic staff

at the Headquarters, and since 2004 it has been done by academic staff in UT
Regional Offices. The markers are recruited from the local state or private

universities and the recruitment process is based on the cooperation between UT
and the local state or private universities. Therefore, the academic staff work

load in examination processing in the Headquarters can be reduced, and the
result of the examination processing can be kept in high standard and objectivity

can be maintained.

Cooperation in Operational Activities

Beside cooperation in the academic field, UT also establishes partnership

and cooperation with other agencies and institutions to facilitate its operational

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