Timeline for How to choose a good grading curve for yes/no exams?
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| Jun 20, 2018 at 12:16 | comment | added | Erel Segal-Halevi | @FourOhFour students with exam anxiety told me that, in such a case, they will always select only the "unconfident" options, since they are afraid to lose points. So, their maximum possible score will be quite low. | |
| Jun 19, 2018 at 11:34 | comment | added | FourOhFour | What about 'Confident Yes (3 / -2)'. 'Unconfident Yes (1 / 0) ', Unconfident No (1 / 0)', 'Confident No (3 / -2)' | |
| Jun 18, 2018 at 20:07 | answer | added | Acccumulation | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 18, 2018 at 14:51 | comment | added | Arthur | Mathematically, 0 for wrong, 1 for right (and 0.5 for blank) is entirely equivalent to -1 for wrong, 1 for right (and 0 for blank). So the exact points you give for each option doesn't really matter. With that in mind, giving students the additional worry that they feel penalized for giving a wrong answer isn't a good idea in my opinion. Thus a wrong answer should give 0, not negative. | |
| Jun 18, 2018 at 13:08 | comment | added | fixerlt | Did you consider extending the number of possible answers to a question from (1:yes; 2:no) to (1:yes, because XYZ; 2:yes, because ABC; 3:no, because PQR; 4:it may be true depending on IJL), so that the expected mark of a random guesser will be 100%*1/n? Does distinguishing the right reasoning(beyond answer) shows deeper knowledge in your course? | |
| Jun 17, 2018 at 18:34 | history | protected | Alexandros | ||
| Jun 16, 2018 at 23:10 | answer | added | curiousdannii | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 16, 2018 at 21:26 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | No grade scheme will improve the situation that yes/no questions suffer from not much useful signal range (if you account for the occasional error) above background (50%). | |
| Jun 16, 2018 at 20:16 | history | edited | Wrzlprmft♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Jun 16, 2018 at 20:14 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft♦ | The conversation on the pros and cons of multiple choice has been moved to chat. Please use comments only to suggest improvements to the question and similar. | |
| Jun 16, 2018 at 7:18 | answer | added | user21820 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 16, 2018 at 2:43 | answer | added | Superbest | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 15, 2018 at 21:44 | answer | added | erfink | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jun 15, 2018 at 21:09 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1007731817036894208 | ||
| Jun 15, 2018 at 20:27 | answer | added | Kevin | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 15, 2018 at 20:20 | history | edited | rumtscho | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
the question title suggests something much broader than the exact problem described in the text.
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| Jun 15, 2018 at 19:38 | answer | added | sds | timeline score: 33 | |
| Jun 15, 2018 at 19:34 | answer | added | Michael Richardson | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 15, 2018 at 18:24 | answer | added | Davy M | timeline score: 5 | |
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| Jun 15, 2018 at 13:19 | answer | added | JRN | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 15, 2018 at 13:07 | answer | added | Daniel R. Collins | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 15, 2018 at 11:48 | answer | added | Peter K. | timeline score: 50 | |
| Jun 15, 2018 at 11:30 | history | asked | Erel Segal-Halevi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |