On Friday 13 June 2008, Grant Sewell wrote: > On 10 Jun 2008 11:26:14 -0400 > > G. Matthew Rice wrote: > > Tobias writes: > > > I have no experience with those electronic tests and got two > > > different answers to my questions: How are "multi-answer > > > questions" counted? E.g., you have 5 possible answers, three are > > > correct and only 2 are marked. No points or half of the possible > > > points or... ? > > > > It's all or nothing. If the question requires 2 correct answers, > > they must both be correct to get any credit for the question. > > > > Regards, > > Cisco used to have the same scheme on their Academy courses. They > recently (3 years?) changed their system to accommodate the > flexibility. Essentially their system now recognises that if a > question has 3 marks then there should be an opportunity for the > examinee to get 0, 1, 2 or 3 marks for it. > > Although this seems fairer, sometimes it does seem to confuse people.
It also encourages guessing and thereby completely screws up the statistical analysis of the answers. Multi-answers questions test the candidates ability and knowledge on a topic that has more than one element. The whole point of the question is to identify if the candidate does in fact know all the elements. We are not interested in knowing if he knows some of them, just if he can correctly identify all of them. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
