If you are using multiple forms, is it really fair for some of the students to have an exam that is more difficult (not ordered) than that some others receive (ordered)?
Randomizing questions is a good thing because it makes it more
difficult for the students to cheat on the exam. When they copy their
neighbor's answers, they fail.
Cheers,
[Description: Karl L. Wuensch]<http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/klw.htm>
From: Stuart McKelvie [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 7:32 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] Curious about exam construction
Dear Tipsters,
Karl wrote:
I once, in a large class and with multiple forms of the exam (same questions,
different order), mistaking used one form that had the questions appearing in
order of the page in the text on the topic was presented. Performance on that
form was about a letter grade higher than on the form with items scrambled.
Comment:
I assume that the implication here is that the higher letter grade is spurious.
If that is the implication, I wonder why. That is, why is it problematic for
students to obtain more correct answers when the questions are in the same
sequence as the topics in the textbook? To put this another way, why is
randomizing questions a good thing? My hunch is that if students benefit by
seeing connections among questions, then that is a good thing!
Sincerely,
Stuart
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