As I've just written, my comments don't really apply to 'instant results' exams - the marking of which is necessarily fairly 'dumb'.
Kind Regards, John
If these are the ways of exam?
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You don't need to tell me! Many moons ago now, I had a bitter battle with the Bucks education system over one of my daughters. She was regarded as easily the 'brightest' pupil in her primary school year but 'failed' the "12-plus" exam (basically an IQ test) so badly that it took a major battle to get them to even allow us to appeal. We got an independent educational psychologist to test her properly and extensively, and she identified the problem as being precisely what you mention - that my daughter was 'too clever' and, as a result, very often failed to get the 'expected' answer. Despite all that, we lost the battle and she went to a Secondary Modern school, but fortunately went on to have a fairly spectacular academic career, certainly outshining me!
As bernard has started to indicate, there are so many possible answers to that one, that'is it's not really worth discussing. As bernard has said, one could find a credible justification for any of them being 'the odd one out'. I therefore I'm not sure that's a very good example of the problem you are describing - that one is just a plain (very) bad question!!
Kind Regards, John
Bear in mind this was a test given to primary school children.
Which means that one needs insight into the workings of the minds of primary school children in order to predict/guess what answer they are most likely to give. As far as such youngsters are concerned, I would suspect that TRACTOR perhaps has the most going for it. It's longer and has more syllables than the other (4 letter) words, it is the only one that normally moves, it is the only 'machine', it's the only one that is used to 'do things' etc. etc. ... but who knows how their minds work. The more I look at that question, the less sure I am of what answer I would 'expect' from someone of any age!
Kind Regards, John
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TRACTOR was the "right" answer, for the reason that it's the only one that isn't a shelter.
The child in question picked BARN as it was the only one which you cannot put CON in front of to make another word.
The child in question picked BARN as it was the only one which you cannot put CON in front of to make another word.
Some of whom have extremely high levels of intelligence and are far more able than the teachers.
Teachers coping with Gifted Children can have a more challenging task than the task of coping with children with learning difficulties.
The whole matter of highly intelligent children is a mine field.
But to get back on topic, the majority of multiple choice examinations with fixed answers can only test what the student has retained since the lesson.
That depends more on the question than the answers available.
I've done exams where the knowledge being tested has not come (and could not have come) from a lesson (or even multiple ones) and where the questions are half a page long.
I've done exams where the knowledge being tested has not come (and could not have come) from a lesson (or even multiple ones) and where the questions are half a page long.
Well, although my 'guess' was right, I take no credit because I hadn't even thought of that particular 'reason' (and, in any event, one could probably shelter in a tractor if one really had to!) - as has been said, one could produce credible 'reasons' for any of the answers being 'right'!
That, perhaps, is a bit 'over-clever' for a primary school pupil (I certainly hadn't thought of that one).
I'd love to know what proportion of 'ordinary' primary school pupils got the 'right' answer and, more to the point, what proportion got the 'right answer' for the 'right reason' - as I said in my last post, there are multiple 'reasons' on could choose TRACTOR!
This is, of course, a situation in which examining the discriminatory value of individual questions could be telling. If it were the case that 'excessively clever' pupils tended to get this question wrong, that could result in a negative correlation between that question and overall performance.
Kind Regards, John
Answers please
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Answers please
Apparently it was answer B. Can't believe my MFT has been lying to me all these years.
Yes, I rather suspected that the answer would be B - because they were probably thinking about the NOMINAL voltage and frequency figures you (rather stupidly!) have to write/print on all your forms (EIC, EICR etc.). Although your MFT will give you (hopefully fairly accurate) measurements (at a point in time), only enquiring to bureaucrats can tell you what the nominal figures are - but don't address your enquiry to winston!Apparently it was answer B. Can't believe my MFT has been lying to me all these years.
Kind Regards, John
240V isn't it?
I suppose it's whatever you're told by the person to whom you address the enquiry - which is why you have to be a little careful when deciding who to ask240V isn't it?
Kind Regards, John
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