In a message of Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:32:27 PST, Scott David Daniels writes: >I wrote: > >> ... keeping people at 80% correct is great rule-of-thumb goal ... > >To elaborate on the statement above a bit, we did drill-and practice >teaching (and had students loving it). The value of the 80% is for >maximal learning. Something like 50% is the best for measurement theory >(but discourages the student drastically). In graduate school I had >one instructor who tried to target his tests to get 50% as the average >mark. It was incredibly discouraging for most of the students (I >eventually came to be OK with it, but it took half the course).
<snip> 'Discouraging' misses the mark. The University of Toronto has professors who like to test to 50% as well. And it causes suicides among undergraduates who are first exposed to this, unless there is adequate preparation. This is incredibly _dangerous_ stuff. Laura >--Scott David Daniels >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >_______________________________________________ >Edu-sig mailing list >Edu-sig@python.org >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
