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2002-02-01 Thread John Kane
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Re: Evaluating students

2001-11-16 Thread John Kane
e of real knowledge or, just happens to be the right > answer that was arrived at (luckily for the examinee) through some faulty > process While this was not exactly my point I think it reinforces it very well. Given a correct answer, even if arrived at in some bizarre manner

Re: Evaluating students

2001-11-16 Thread John Kane
dennis roberts wrote: > would we give full credit for 87/18 = 7/1 ... 8's cancel? > > >Full marks. As Napoleon used to ask, "Is he lucky?". :) He/she deserves it.! > > > > -- > >John Kane > >The Rideau Lakes, Ontario Canada

Re: Evaluating students

2001-11-15 Thread John Kane
Jerry Dallal wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > > Very true and I was being deliberatly provocative. Howeever I still cannot > > see penalizing someone for gerttaingt the right anwser no matter how arried > > at. > > Problem: Divide 95 by 19. > > Student write

Re: Evaluating students

2001-11-12 Thread John Kane
Herman Rubin wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Herman Rubin wrote: > > >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >> John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >Stan Brown wr

Re: Evaluating students

2001-11-12 Thread John Kane
Stan Brown wrote: > John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu: > >So you are saying that getting the right answer is not important? > > No, of course it's important. But getting the right answer for the > wrong reasons is bad, since one may not be s

Re: Reply to John Kane

2001-11-10 Thread John Kane
(Area in Larger Portion) PROBABILITY = "; > > print using FORM14$; T > print " (Area in Smaller Portion one-tail = "; > print using FORM14$; 1-T > print " (Area from Z to Mean one-tail = "; > print using FORM14$; .5-(1-T) > > pr

Re: Evaluating students

2001-11-10 Thread John Kane
r > project of their own choosing. > > -- > Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA > http://oakroadsystems.com > My reply address is correct as is. The courtesy of providing a correct > reply address i

Re: Z Scores and stuff

2001-11-10 Thread John Kane
ould like, I believe I can provide you with the computer program > which allows you to end a Z value and determine the probability associated > with that value. You may or may not decide that it is worth programming. I > think that using a single seet table is a lot less work. > Well d

Re: They look different; are they really?

2001-11-02 Thread John Kane
grading scale is a > guide and a guarantee for them: if they get 90%, they get an A. But I > reserve the right to lower the scale so that, in theory at least, if I > believe a 30% student is really an A student, then 30% becomes an A. > After all, isn't that what "professio

Re: They look different; are they really?

2001-11-02 Thread John Kane
ut framing questions that can be answered by the kind of data you can get. Err see above for the problem :) -- John Kane The Rideau Lakes, Ontario Canada = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =

Re: They look different; are they really?

2001-11-02 Thread John Kane
r modifications? Even in the instrutcions ? Sorry to be so picky but it can be important. Are you sure that you and the other instructor are teaching the same things (especially as to what will be on the exam?) Yes students do form exam strategies. -- -- John Kane The Rideau Lak