Grading: plus/minus system. Thoughts!

[Angelo84]

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Our system is the standard plus/minus system except that 90+ is an A. Overall I like plus/minus as it makes sense to separate those just barely getting into a grade bracket from those that did better.

For those that don't like multiple choice. Read the question while covering the answer choices and write down your answer--ie make it a short answer. Then uncover the answer choices and find the answer you wrote down. Finally no changing answers ever! Clearly this won't work on pick the correct/incorrect but otherwise it really helps keep you from picking the trap answers.

 

[sumstorm]

For those that don't like multiple choice. Read the question while covering the answer choices and write down your answer--ie make it a short answer. Then uncover the answer choices and find the answer you wrote down. Finally no changing answers ever! Clearly this won't work on pick the correct/incorrect but otherwise it really helps keep you from picking the trap answers.

lol. nearly all our MC is select the best of, select the worst of, or trick questions.

my favorite was something like 'you are riding your horse who has some hypersensitivity through the amazonian jungle and the natives have robbed you of everything but one bag, and your horse suddenly has a seizure after swimming acros the river, which of the following drugs would you be least likely to give it' and none of them are used or advised against for seizures or horses or after activity.... (question is a paraphrase, not an actual question we were given) and I could come up with different reasons not to use any of them...but couldn't have told you which was worse (well, this one has more side effects in horses, but this one can cause dehydration, and this one could cause paradoxial aggression.....) they aren't all that bad, but I'm so sick of trick questions and game playing that I am not anxious trying to hyper read every question and every answer. and 90% of them are 'all of the following is a potential cause of blank except...' or my other favorite is to put 5 options that are all, on the surface, true, but one has some small aspect that makes it not true. or, my other favorites; A, B, C, D(A, B are right), E(A, C are right) F(ABC are right).

I always come up with an answer when I read them...then look at the answers offered and there isn't anything like it. great. apparently I didn't have enough standardized tests growing up.

 

[Coquette22]

(question is a paraphrase, not an actual question we were given)

Damn it, I was hoping that was an actual question! It would have ranked up there with the feedforward activation question I had on a biochem quiz today.

or, my other favorites; A, B, C, D(A, B are right), E(A, C are right) F(ABC are right).

Ugh, my cell bio professor was notorious for those. I'm really good at picking out one right answer. I suck at picking out more than one.

 

[sumstorm]

Damn it, I was hoping that was an actual question! It would have ranked up there with the feedforward activation question I had on a biochem quiz today.

Ugh, my cell bio professor was notorious for those. I'm really good at picking out one right answer. I suck at picking out more than one.

LOL! It's pretty darn close, but posting a question from an exam would be a violation of our honor code.