[nflug] Meeting on October 20

[Richard Hubbard]

I had something similar happen to me.

I had a test where there was a screenshot of a wizard, and the question 
was a fill in the blank statement, "The above wizard is the _______ wizard"
The screenshot said, quite clearly, "Welcome to the Virtual FTP site wizard"

One of the students got it wrong.

After that, I almost always put in a multiple choice question along the 
lines of "Select Answer B".

Ken Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:16 -0400, Franklin Kumro Jr wrote:
>   
>> counting from zero, you know how many tests I got points off cause I
>> started at zero :-p
>>     
>
> The first couple semesters I taught classes I wound up with an inverse
> bell curve for the exams.  It was pointed out to me that I was asking
> questions that were all of roughly the same difficulty level, and the
> students basically "got it" (right side of the curve) or "didn't get
> it" (left side of the curve) with no middle ground.  So I realized I
> needed to vary the difficulty of the questions.
>
> My first attempt at a "Give me 10 points for free" type question was
> doing something that looked like this:
>
>
> 					0) Name: _______________
>
> 			Midterm Exam
> 			============
>
> 1) Blah blah blah...
>
> I suppose it wasn't truly fair because this was the test paper and they
> were expected to write the answers for questions 1 thru 9 in one of
> those "Blue book" exam booklets.  But most of the class didn't get
> question 0...  I decided to give them full credit if they'd written
> their name on the front of the Blue book (which they all had...).
>
> >From that point on the "Give me 10 points for free" question has been a
> "real" question (looks like the rest of them and is positioned below the
> "title" of the question page) that's something along the lines of "What
> does TCP/IP *stand* for? (NOT what *is* TCP/IP - what does it *stand*
> *for*?)".  And despite that I'll usually still get several students who
> will fill a page describing it...  :-)
>
>   
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