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Activity Number:
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148
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 7, 2006 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Education
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| Abstract - #306444 |
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Title:
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Changing Answers in Exams: for the Better or for the Worse?
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Author(s):
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Juergen Symanzik*+ and Natascha Vukasinovic
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Companies:
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Utah State University and Utah State University
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Address:
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, Logan, UT, 84322-3900,
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Keywords:
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teaching ; electronic textbook ; cyberstats ; multiple answers
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Abstract:
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Throughout the year 2004, Utah State University offered three introductory long-distance statistics courses (Stat 2000) for students in its International Program in Hong Kong. The courses were based on the electronic textbook CyberStats. The exams were given electronically and all student answers were stored in the CyberStats data base. `All answers' means that if a student changed the answer to a multiple-choice question or corrected a typo in a text-based answer, all previous answers were still accessible and not only the final answer. In this talk, we will address the question whether students gained more points when changing their answers or when keeping their first answer.
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