Ron,
I've forwarded your email to Jon.
Greg

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Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 8:54 AM
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Subject: FW: Com 143

Can you forward this to Jon Patton?

Jon, I left a voice mail about the continued problem with the scoring of the
exam for COM 143.  I've summarized the issues in an email below which I sent
to Theresa.

I figured it could be of help to you as well.

What should we do now?
Ron


I picked up the re-ran materials for the COM 143 exam and the same error was
there.  I looked at the various material, including the individual student
result sheets and confirmed that
1.  My scramble and answer sheet are correct.
2.  According to the scramble input sheet you entered the scramble
correctly.

However

3. 6 of the questions on the form 3 exams were scored against the wrong
questions.
4.  The questions in error are revealed when one looks at the scramble-cross
reference sheet where there is a discrepancy between the input list and the
cross reference list for 6 questions.
5.  And the errors are confirmed when one looks at the individual readout
results for the form 3 students where students who give the right answer are
scored as giving an incorrect answer because it seems the system was grading
it against the wrong question.

The questions in error:

On form 1               is on form 3    but is seemingly graded against
30 (correct answer A)       43          50 (student readout says right
                                             answer: C
43 (correct answer C)       50          30 (says right answer should be A)
50 (correct answer C)       30          43 (says right answer is C)*
66 (correct answer C)       68          67 (says right answer is D)
67 (correct answer B)       66          68 (says right answer is C)
68 (correct answer D)       67          66 (says right answer is B)

*note, because of the coincidence that both 43 and 50 had C as the right
answer, this specific question ends up being graded correctly...but not for
the right reason, I suspect.

I will send this on to Jon Patton as well.

Thanks,
Ron Becker
529-3540




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