Re: Make-up tests

[Miguel Roig]

I allow my students in General Psych. to miss up to 2 regular exams (out of 5) for whatever reason and they can then take them as make-ups during the week of final. So, I went back to my grade book and looked at four recent sections of General Psych. I took the final grades of all students who took make-ups and then compared them with a t-test to a group that had not taken any make-ups. For the latter group I simply went down the list for each course and selected every third student who had not taken a make-up. 
The data are below:

                        N       Mean    Sd      Range   Min.    Max.
Make-up group           41      66.48   10.89   45      50      95
No Make-up group        45      75.66   10.37   42      58      100

t (84) = - 4.021, p < .0001


Miguel

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