Could it be argued that the goal be for all students to score 100% on the desired content?
Rodrigo Senra said: > > On 5Dec 2005, at 7:50 AM, damon bryant wrote: > >> One of the main reasons I decided to use an Item Response Theory (IRT) >> framework was that the testing platform, once fully operational, >> will not >> give students questions that are either too easy or too difficult >> for them, >> thus reducing anxiety and boredom for low and high ability students, >> respectively. In other words, high ability students will be >> challenged with >> more difficult questions and low ability students will receive >> questions >> that are challenging but matched to their ability. > > So far so good... > >> Each score is on the same scale, although some students will not >> receive the same questions. This is the beautiful thing! > > I'd like to respectfully disagree. I'm afraid that would cause more > harm than good. > One side of student evaluation is to give feedback *for* the > students. That is a > relative measure, his/her performance against his/her peers. > > If I understood correctly the proposal is to give a "hard"-A for some > and an "easy"-A > for others, so everybody have A's (A=='good score'). Is that it ? > That sounds like > sweeping the dirt under the carpet. Students will know. We have to > prepare them to > tackle failure as well as success. > > I do not mean such efforts are not worthy, quite the reverse. But I > strongly disagree > with an adaptive scale. There should be a single scale fro the whole > spectre of tests. > If some students excel their results must show this, as well as if > some students perform > poorly that should not be hidden from them. Give them a goal and the > means to pursue > their goal. > > If I got your proposal all wrong, I apologize ;o) > > best regards, > Senra > > > Rodrigo Senra > ______________ > rsenra @ acm.org > http://rodrigo.senra.nom.br > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > -------------------------------------------------------------------- S c o t t J. D u r k i n -------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Science |||| Preston Junior High [EMAIL PROTECTED] |||| http://staffweb.psdschools.org/sdurkin ____________________________________________________________________ ___ _ ___ _ ___ _ ___ _ ___ _ [(_)] |=| [(_)] |=| [(_)] |=| [(_)] |=| [(_)] |=| '-` |_| '-` |_| '-` |_| '-` |_| '-` |_| /mmm/ / /mmm/ / /mmm/ / /mmm/ / /mmm/ / |____________|____________|____________|____________| | | | ___ \_ ___ \_ ___ \_ Computer Room [(_)] |=| [(_)] |=| [(_)] |=| Lab N205 '-` |_| '-` |_| '-` |_| /mmm/ /mmm/ /mmm/ ____________________________________________________________________ 970.419.7358 |||| 2005-2006 scott.james.durkin _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
