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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Certification Test Woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seruq)
Tue Apr 1 22:57:19 2014
From: "Seruq" <seruq@bellsouth.net>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:57:29 -0500
In-Reply-To: <CALN+49aCsdKcAgAGWAifyTe9nCtP4A9_8UDLavTnt1-gtOYfbw@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@kli.org
> You have prbably thought about it already, but can't
> the weight of a quetion be attached to the number of words or
> syllables in the answer?
>
> e.g
> translate "shoe" - answer = 1 point
> translate "where is the bathroom" - answer = 6 points
>
> This may not always work, but can make some more difference.
>
>
> Well, if we were to go with an approach like this I wouldn't
> count syllables, but morphemes. No reason that "bathroom"
> should have a higher value than "loo". The questions are (a)
> how do you reliably calculate this value; and (b) what do you
> do with it?
Is there just one big pool of questions? Hypothetically, could a test end up being questions that
all ask "What is the suffix for..."?
What if the pool was broken into groups? One group is of questions that require just a single word
answer. Another group is for questions that require writing a sentence. And so on with however
many groups would be appropriate. When generating tests, so many questions get pulled from each
group. x number of questions about suffixes. y number of questions involving sentences. Etc.
Questions within each group would carry the same value. Maybe even group by sentence
length/complexity. A group for sentences like "The officer hit the boy", and another group for
sentences like "Two days ago I saw the boy whom the officer hit."
Wouldn't really be /changing/ the tests, just make the randomness more even and scoring would be
based on which group the question came from.
-- DloraH
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