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Confidence Scores for Exam Questions
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6 points by
surprisetalk
3 days ago
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clickety_clack 34 minutes ago
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It would make more sense to just use IRT for grading the responses than trying to add more complexity to the answers themselves.
vmilner 1 hours ago
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I seem to remember some medical related multiple choice tests in the UK use a mechanism of +1 for correct , 0 for unanswered , -1 for incorrect.
CGMthrowaway 30 minutes ago
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A system like that seems especially appropriate for a practice where the foundational principle is "do no harm."
esafak 1 hours ago
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibration_(statistics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoring_rule
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoring_rule