Re: Evaluating students

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 Of course not. No sign of inspired luck just lousy math

Re: Evaluating students

what may be blind luck I would credit it (given we don't get into some nasty legal problems ) jsut because the candidate was that blind lucky. -- -- John Kane The Rideau Lakes, Ontario Canada = Instructions

Re: Evaluating students

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 writes 95/19, 9's cancel, leaving 5/1 = 5 . How much

Re: Evaluating students

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 so lucky next time when, say, calculating

Re: Evaluating students

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 wrote: Herman Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in sci.stat.edu: Test for understanding

Re: Z Scores and stuff

done. That is exactly what he asked for! Just my two cents. GOD BLESS AMERICA Dr. Robert C. Knodt 4949 Samish Way, #31 Bellingham, WA 98226 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- John Kane The Rideau Lakes, Ontario Canada

Re: Evaluating students

http://oakroadsystems.com My reply address is correct as is. The courtesy of providing a correct reply address is more important to me than time spent deleting spam. -- -- John Kane The Rideau Lakes, Ontario Canada

Re: Reply to John Kane

. And yes re-inventing the wheel. Nothing wrong with that. Shows he's interested ( or lazy ?) either of which leads to advances in the area. I have heard it suggested that all innovation came from people to lazy to do things 'this' way. Any way, thanks for the reply . -- John Kane

Re: They look different; are they really?

students do form exam strategies. -- -- John Kane The Rideau Lakes, Ontario Canada = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available

Re: They look different; are they really?

as a witness- although I really don't have the qualifications) just salivating. As I gather is common in this field, the problem isn't statistics per se, but framing questions that can be answered by the kind of data you can get. Err see above for the problem :) -- John Kane

Re: They look different; are they really?

: not slavishly following an arithmetic rule? No that is dishonest. If the student does not show his/her capability then he/she does not get the mark. Anything else is fraud. -- -- John Kane The Rideau Lakes, Ontario Canada