Those dumb kids :(
Jun. 22nd, 2006 01:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starzkiToday was the midterm exam for my students.
I've started grading.
The results are not good. And I'm extremely mad.
They're getting stuff wrong that I know I was crystal clear in explaining more than once.
I distinctly remember writing on the blackboard in very neat handwriting, "Internal validity is when the change in the response variable is attributed to the treatment and nothing else."
Out of the 27 students that took the test, I had to rewrite this sentence on 24 of the tests when the short answer question asked them to define internal validity. And I'm giving partial credit like crazy. Anything remotely close to this definition got credit. All three of them. :(
I haven't even gotten to the actual math questions yet. I fear I may weep. A lot.
I've started grading.
The results are not good. And I'm extremely mad.
They're getting stuff wrong that I know I was crystal clear in explaining more than once.
I distinctly remember writing on the blackboard in very neat handwriting, "Internal validity is when the change in the response variable is attributed to the treatment and nothing else."
Out of the 27 students that took the test, I had to rewrite this sentence on 24 of the tests when the short answer question asked them to define internal validity. And I'm giving partial credit like crazy. Anything remotely close to this definition got credit. All three of them. :(
I haven't even gotten to the actual math questions yet. I fear I may weep. A lot.
