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But the difficulty of the questions should not lead us to duck them – we should aim for outcome-based standards that are integrated into the SDGs, and articulated in the form of floor or convergence targets.
What we've learned is that passing rates (and difficulty of the questions) can be raised or lowered at will to produce whatever results are politically useful -- rather like shooting an arrow and then drawing a target around it.
In a memo to local superintendents, a deputy commissioner, James Kadamus, said that the state analysis would look at the difficulty of individual questions and the cumulative difficulty of the questions, and would compare student performance the last three times the exam was administered.
Joseph Zawicki, a professor of science education at the State University College at Buffalo who studied 700 answer sheets from the June 2002 test, attributed the high failure rate not to the difficulty of the questions but to the passing score set by state officials.
Then, pre-test surveys were done to ascertain the appropriateness and level of difficulty of the questions.
The difficulty of the questions can be tuned down for students in elementary school and tuned up for those in college calculus classes.
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The amount of the fee depends on a variety of factors, including the difficulty of the question and how long it will take the expert to answer it.
According to Susanti et al. (2016), the word difficulty of the question components contributes to the difficulty of question items by up to 60%.
We contacted the company to inquire about these cuts, and were told that the "Pay-For-Performance" system was eliminated in February and replaced with a pay system based on the difficulty of the question answered.
Criteria for choosing questions included the difficulty of the question (determined by the percent correct scores from the students), the topic of each question (based on the topics outlined in the course syllabus), question clarity, and how the percent correct changed if peer instruction was involved.
Despite the difficulty of the question, she did not miss a beat.
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