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Multiple-choice Analysis SAC
« on: May 30, 2008, 04:53:37 pm »
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Has anybody done this SAC? It's the one where you are given a number of multiple-choice questions and analyse why each answer is either correct/incorrect.

I found it pretty interesting - rarely is it helpful to actually make a stupid mistake :P How did everyone else find it?
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Re: Multiple-choice Analysis SAC
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2008, 05:07:42 pm »
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we did one like that in further
i hope we do it in spec, last year it was a good eye-opener
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Re: Multiple-choice Analysis SAC
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2008, 05:10:13 pm »
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I am going to do one of those on tuesday. It seems ambiguous and useless.
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Re: Multiple-choice Analysis SAC
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2008, 05:37:08 pm »
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Quote from: ed_saifa on May 30, 2008, 05:10:13 pm
I am going to do one of those on tuesday. It seems ambiguous and useless.
agreed.

we did one at the start of the year.

it has an impossible marking scheme. how should a teacher interpret a "this option is incorrect because it is absolutely senseless" as an appropriate answer that is worth one mark or a "failed to identify" and be awarded 0?

[on a side note, ell16, are you from Narre P-12 or Lyndhurst?]

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Re: Multiple-choice Analysis SAC
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2008, 05:51:07 pm »
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Quote from: Mao on May 30, 2008, 05:37:08 pm
agreed.

we did one at the start of the year.

it has an impossible marking scheme. how should a teacher interpret a "this option is incorrect because it is absolutely senseless" as an appropriate answer that is worth one mark or a "failed to identify" and be awarded 0?

[on a side note, ell16, are you from Narre P-12 or Lyndhurst?]

Hmm. I found the exercise quite challenging, finding out how a student could have gone wrong in getting an answer, although I guess I'll have to wait and see how my teacher marks it.

[neither. why do you ask?]
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Re: Multiple-choice Analysis SAC
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2008, 06:02:38 pm »
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just wondering. our cohort [MASSIVE total of TWO] joined with these two schools, and we've swapped SACs. as a result they now have an MC item analysis SAC sometime about now~ish.
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Re: Multiple-choice Analysis SAC
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2008, 06:12:08 pm »
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Quote from: Mao on May 30, 2008, 05:37:08 pm
Quote from: ed_saifa on May 30, 2008, 05:10:13 pm
I am going to do one of those on tuesday. It seems ambiguous and useless.
agreed.

we did one at the start of the year.

it has an impossible marking scheme. how should a teacher interpret a "this option is incorrect because it is absolutely senseless" as an appropriate answer that is worth one mark or a "failed to identify" and be awarded 0?

[on a side note, ell16, are you from Narre P-12 or Lyndhurst?]



Totally agree with you. We did this type of SAC a few months back, and although with some the mistake was obvious, some were so stupid that to quote "you had to be [name censored for his protection (this kid who started with spech and dropped down to further] to get that question wrong like that."
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Re: Multiple-choice Analysis SAC
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2008, 06:20:06 pm »
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Quote from: Glockmeister on May 30, 2008, 06:12:08 pm
Quote from: Mao on May 30, 2008, 05:37:08 pm
Quote from: ed_saifa on May 30, 2008, 05:10:13 pm
I am going to do one of those on tuesday. It seems ambiguous and useless.
agreed.

we did one at the start of the year.

it has an impossible marking scheme. how should a teacher interpret a "this option is incorrect because it is absolutely senseless" as an appropriate answer that is worth one mark or a "failed to identify" and be awarded 0?

[on a side note, ell16, are you from Narre P-12 or Lyndhurst?]



Totally agree with you. We did this type of SAC a few months back, and although with some the mistake was obvious, some were so stupid that to quote "you had to be [name censored for his protection (this kid who started with spech and dropped down to further] to get that question wrong like that."
That's so harsh.
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Re: Multiple-choice Analysis SAC
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2008, 08:42:06 pm »
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Again, haven't done this type of test in spec, but in further i thought it was good. It highlights to students how simple mistakes can cost you marks.
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Re: Multiple-choice Analysis SAC
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2008, 10:55:33 pm »
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Quote from: Glockmeister on May 30, 2008, 06:12:08 pm
Totally agree with you. We did this type of SAC a few months back, and although with some the mistake was obvious, some were so stupid that to quote "you had to be [name censored for his protection (this kid who started with spech and dropped down to further] to get that question wrong like that."

That's fair enough, although for our SAC you could pretty much figure out where the student went wrong in all the answers.
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Re: Multiple-choice Analysis SAC
« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2008, 11:54:36 am »
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I did a similar one a month or so ago. There were 6 questions all up, with 5 multiple choice answers for each.
For one of the question, I couldn't find out half of the errors, so just made some stuff up. Oh, and one of the questions, I said one of the incorrect answers were the correct the answer, and analysed how the 'correct' one was incorrect. LOL.
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