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Hard questions should be worth less

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Matt West

IDC (inverse-difficulty credit) is a points scale for exams where hard questions are worth fewer points. This gives good grade distributions on exams using mastery grading, where questions are only graded as correct or incorrect.

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Matt West

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Homepage: http://lagrange.mechse.illinois.edu

This blog explores methods for teaching effectively at a large scale in the traditional research university environment.

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