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Hmmm,might
It seems to me that on a multiple choice test even a totally clueless
student should get a certain number of answers correct just by random
guesses. So I don't understand the zero (or negative) scores, unless you
award negative points for wrong answers. Is this the case here?
Mark
http://www.IrascibleProfessor.com
-----Original Message-----
From: William J. Larson [mailto:bill_larson@CSI.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 11:04 PM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Concerned about grades]]
My rule is that if the test was hard the curve can be low, but a
negative score is a failure. This rule IS invoked.
Cheers,
Bill Larson
Geneva, Switzerland
----- Original Message -----
From: Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: 2000 March 29 8:40 AM
Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: Concerned about grades]]
Jeff Sweet wrote:
Bernard,
I identify with this part:
My explanation to students has always been that
there is very little "padding" on my exams, and that someone who
get"opening
30% or so on a multiple-choice exam in another course without
thea
book" would probably get something closer to zero on a physics exam.
On the chemistry exam I gave last Friday (a multiple-choice test with
I"guessing penalty) a student who never opens the book got a zero. If
studentdidn't establish zero as the lowest possible score, this particular
would have actually received a negative score!
Jeff