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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Certification Test Woes

Brad Wilson ([email protected])

• From: Brad Wilson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Certification Test Woes
• Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:32:24 -0400 (EDT)
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</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">I do like the idea of acknowledging students' progress without necessarily subjecting them to an "official" exam.</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Assigning questions randomly from a large test bank may ensure that over many tests, there is a balance of high &amp; low-value questions, but it doesn't prevent any one test from being overly skewed, which isn't really fair to that particular student. Can the questions be "weighted" so that in choosing them, the test still retains a difficulty consistent with the objective?
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