If the use of clickers enhanced student understanding of material, one would think that this would be accompanied by an overall increase in class averages on the exam and a decrease in the percentage of students failing the exam.
Table 1 displays the mean, standard deviation, and average rank of the exam score for the control and experimental groups for the two sets of items.
Students were required to obtain 70% on the average of the three exams but were not rewarded for performing better than that.
The report card rates schools based on how many students pass each exam, instead of rating on the average mark on the exam.
The exam average gap between quiz takers and non quiz takers observed as the semester progressed is notable, as the exam average of the group of students not taking any of the required pre-exam quizzes falls significantly below the class average as the semester progresses.
The estimated average length of the clinic exam was 2 45 hours.
As the difficulty of exams increased, students' average scores on the exams remained constant.
PAGE A13 SAT SCORES HOLD STEADY After two years of declines, SAT scores stayed put, with averages for the three sections of the exam identical for the class of 2008 and the class of 2007: 502 in the critical-reading section, 515 in the mathematics section, and 494 in the writing section.
In China, for example, the average score on the verbal section of the exam rose 100 points in a period examined last year, on a scale of 200 to 800, testing officials said.
Because motivation can be a problem for pass/fail courses (Gold, 1971), we implemented a policy that required students to earn above a 70% on the average of three exams that focused on data interpretation and experimental design.
As shown in the table, patients undergoing surgical intervention at the Sant'Andrea Breast Unit needed on average 1.0 4.0 diagnostic exams to confirm surgical indication, while subjects examined in local health care authority outpatient clinics or general hospitals needed an average of 4.8 6.0 exams before the operation.
