Having thought about our thread about FITB Questions and translation issues, I was reminded about a discussion for why we originally went out of our way to include concept based questions as FITB.
It was actually by request of our last psychometrician. As I recall him explaining it when it was talked about with Level 2, and we began our rewrite process for Level 1, we needed to do whatever possible to stay away from "trivia" questions. The best way to demonstrate understanding of concepts (as opposed to memorization of files, commands, etc) was in concept FITB questions. That resulted in the couple of items that flagged this conversation. I personally like the idea of the concept-style FITB questions. I haven't had any complaints about them so far, before this question of translating the answers. I personally would like to keep them, but that's not my decision :-) I'll go back through our item pool and flag all questions that this affects, however, and review them with our psychometrician as we begin changing our exams. Thanks for all the feedback :-) -- Kara Pritchard Phone: 618-398-7360 Director of Exam Development http://www.lpi.org/ President, K&S Pritchard Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Participate in LPI Level 3 Exam Development! https://www.lpi.org/en/examdev/jta/index.html _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
