Re: OT: grading multiple choice
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 12:02, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> [2003.07.19.1834 +0200]:
> > If you make an "answer template" in a dictionary, I bet that REs
> > would make it pretty trivial.
>
> The main problem is that we have to adhere to pretty strict rules by
> the Swiss government in terms of statistical analysis of the
> answers. We need to weed out the questions that don't reflect
> a candidate's skills (by using a question's discriminatory power)
> and keep a set reliability score high.
Ok, what does that mean? From my probably flawed reading, it sounds
like the gov't likes to ensure that grades are as high as possible.
> Moreover, I would like to be able to assign grades such that the
> average will be a B (5.0 in Switzerland, 2.0 in Germany).
Grading "on the curve"?
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