Mining Students' Attempts in Multiple Choices Exams to Understand Students' Learning
Posted by Essam Kosba on March 7 2014 at 8:55 a.m.
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Posted by Essam Kosba on March 7 2014 at 8:55 a.m.
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Questions and comments are highly welcomed
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This is an extremely interesting paper. I wonder whether all of the items contained multiple attractive distractors that informed teachers about student misconceptions.
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Lara, would you please clarify what you mean by your comment
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When the multiple choice item is designed, do each of the distractor choices inform the instructor of different or partial misunderstandings? For instance, a math item set of distractors may reveal an error in calculation, another distractor may reveal a misapplication of a solution strategy, and a third may show that the student doesn't have any skills in solving a particular type of problem. I am very interested in item design and what teachers are able to interpret based on how students answer items.
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Thanks Lara. Yes, you are completely right. Choices are designed in order to show misconceptions in different concepts related to the main concept of the question.
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