In your locale, does a checkmark (✔) indicate "Correct" or "Incorrect" (college, teachers)

[ragnarkar]

Not a teacher here and have been out of school for a while, but had an interesting discussion about this and I'm wondering if there's a regional difference.

I did grades 1-12 in Michigan and at every school that I went to, when you got your exams back, a checkmark on any problem means it's incorrect and nothing means it's correct. However, I went to college (and grad school) in California and there, the checkmark usually meant "correct". A checkmark with a perpendicular line through it means partial credit. This sometimes confused people who changed schools and were in for a shock when they get back their papers littered with checkmarks (assuming their previous school used checkmarks to indicate incorrect answers.)

In your locale, what does the checkmark indicate? Correct? Incorrect?

[phetaroi]

Interesting, I have seen both, but always presumed it was a personal (rather than regional) thing.

[tnff]

Various teachers I've had have used it for correct, some for incorrect, and a lot as just an acknowledgement that work was done without actually grading it. Some used it in combination with X for incorrect and others with + for correct and - for incorrect. No real pattern to who did what.

[1200RT]

Really taking me back. Been awhile since I've been in school, and kids are too young.

IIRC a check was good, a x was bad.

[kitkatbar]

In my neck of the woods (taught in several states), checkmark was always "correct" and an X was used to indicate incorrect.

[Lillie767]

Originally Posted by kitkatbar

In my neck of the woods (taught in several states), checkmark was always "correct" and an X was used to indicate incorrect.

This was the practice when I was a student and when i was a teacher. I can't imagine a check mark meaning "incorrect". Also, "check" means "yes" or "yea" for voting

check mark NOUN
NORTH AMERICAN
a mark (✓) used to indicate that an item in a list or text is correct or has been chosen, checked, or dealt with.

[bostongymjunkie]

When I was in school it either signified "correct" next to a given question on, say, a multiple choice exam, or simply an acknowledgement that the teacher has reviewed some part or all of a written assignment and considered it into the final grade.

[North Beach Person]

A check mark depended on the teacher where I taught as long as it was the peaceful green or purple and not the offensive, frightening and triggering red.

And yes, that verbiage was in the memo.