Tag: Standardized Tests


“But How Many Points is it Worth?”

I’m giving a test this week and, predictably, it’s worth a certain percentage of the students’ final grades in the class — which reminds me of a much earlier experience I had when students in my intro course complained that my syllabus was only out of 100 possible points when their other courses were worth 715 points or maybe 864 points, or sometimes even more! Who was I to limit their chances by making my course out of only 100? […]

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