Permanent Box <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can someone point me to the psychometrics for the LPI test items? This
> should be a good guide on the multiple answers query.

hi t_boxmy,

Can you rephrase the question?  I'm not exactly certain what you are looking
for.

But, speaking as the one of the people that help put the exams together, I
can tell you that, for a multiple-choice multiple-answer question, you must
get all of the choices correct to get credit for a correct answer on the
question.

Regards,
--matt

> 
> =t_boxmy=
> 
> SCJP, LPIC-1, CTP (CIPD, UK)
> 
> (URL http://tboxmy.blogspot.com )
> 
> --- On Sat, 6/14/08, Tobias Crefeld &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]&gt; wrote:
> From: Tobias Crefeld &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]&gt;
> Subject: Re: [lpi-discuss] Multiple answers
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, June 14, 2008, 1:03 AM
> 
> Actually I didn't want to discuss the tests. I'm just interested in
> knowing how to deal with answers im multiple answer questions which
> aren't clear in my view. Thanks for clarification!
> 
> 
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:43:04 +0200 Alan McKinnon
> &lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]&gt; wrote:
> 
> &gt; On Friday 13 June 2008, Grant Sewell wrote:
> &gt; &gt; Cisco used to have the same scheme on their Academy courses. They
> &gt; &gt; recently (3 years?) changed their system to accommodate the
> &gt; &gt; flexibility.  Essentially their system now recognises that if a
> &gt; &gt; question has 3 marks then there should be an opportunity for the
> &gt; &gt; examinee to get 0, 1, 2 or 3 marks for it.
> &gt; 
> &gt; It also encourages guessing and thereby completely screws up the 
> &gt; statistical analysis of the answers. 
> 
> The support of guessing is a disadvantage of multiple choice tests in
> general no matter how many answers you offer. 
> The only advantage is the reduced efforts for automated scoring.
> 
> 
> &gt; Multi-answers questions test the candidates ability and knowledge on
> &gt; a topic that has more than one element. The whole point of the
> &gt; question is to identify if the candidate does in fact know all the
> &gt; elements. 
> 
> I think it depends on the type of answer and it depends on how close
> to practical problems the test should operate:
> 
> If you ask how to solve a problem it should be enough if you have one
> correct solution. If you have more solutions this is nice but
> without any practical benefit so you get just one point and none if one
> or more wrong answers got marked.
> On the other hand if you ask e.g. for some effects of a command every
> correctly marked item should count as it proves a slightly increased
> level of knowledge and every wrong answer marked should bring one minus
> point down to a limit of zero points per question.
> The third possibility might be a security question, e.g. you have to
> list all points you have to care about if you setup a secure host.
> As there is no half secure host only a complete list should get scored.
> 
> This is just my personal point of view. Don't care about it. ;)
> 
> -- 
> Gruß,
>  Tobias.
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