Comments on: Multiple choice tests: why you shouldn’t panic http://www.smallgraymatters.com/2006/08/26/multiple-choice-tests-why-you-shouldnt-panic/ of brains and their minds Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:30:01 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: lines http://www.smallgraymatters.com/2006/08/26/multiple-choice-tests-why-you-shouldnt-panic/comment-page-1/#comment-12489 lines Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:22:49 +0000 http://www.smallgraymatters.com/2006/08/26/multiple-choice-tests-why-you-shouldnt-panic/#comment-12489 i am one of those ceiling students. i make phenomenally good grades in courses where the teacher writes perfect questions. Other kids cant believe the grades I make in these tests. However, when there is one or two ambiguous questions thrown in, I lose it. I get so angry that classes that should be easy, I end up with a very very bad grade. Currently I have an A in my Cardio Physiology Class, and an F in Microbiology. My Micro teacher writes bad questions and the whole time I am taking the exam I am thinking of how bad the questions are, so I mark the answer that fits the question perfectly. BAD QUESTIONS gets a BAD ANSWER. One day he will get his, the asshole. EVen though I know what he is going after, I am obliged by my honor to put the wrong answer because the questions is written incorrectly. I am so frustrated by this. i am one of those ceiling students. i make phenomenally good grades in courses where the teacher writes perfect questions. Other kids cant believe the grades I make in these tests. However, when there is one or two ambiguous questions thrown in, I lose it. I get so angry that classes that should be easy, I end up with a very very bad grade. Currently I have an A in my Cardio Physiology Class, and an F in Microbiology. My Micro teacher writes bad questions and the whole time I am taking the exam I am thinking of how bad the questions are, so I mark the answer that fits the question perfectly. BAD QUESTIONS gets a BAD ANSWER. One day he will get his, the asshole. EVen though I know what he is going after, I am obliged by my honor to put the wrong answer because the questions is written incorrectly. I am so frustrated by this.

]]> By: Bob Lucas http://www.smallgraymatters.com/2006/08/26/multiple-choice-tests-why-you-shouldnt-panic/comment-page-1/#comment-1533 Bob Lucas Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:58:28 +0000 http://www.smallgraymatters.com/2006/08/26/multiple-choice-tests-why-you-shouldnt-panic/#comment-1533 Dear Professor, I loved your article; you actually wrote it in plain English! My only question is, and this is a selfish one, how does one actually calculate a value for inter-item correlation? Weak on statistics, Bob Lucas Dear Professor,

I loved your article; you actually wrote it in plain English! My only question is, and this is a selfish one, how does one actually calculate a value for inter-item correlation?

Weak on statistics,

Bob Lucas

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