[LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: loncom /html/adm/help/tex Statistics_Overall_Key.tex

[matthew]

matthew		Mon Jul 12 15:29:02 2004 EDT

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    /loncom/html/adm/help/tex	Statistics_Overall_Key.tex 
  Log:
  Added help on degree of discrimination.
  
  
Index: loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Statistics_Overall_Key.tex
diff -u loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Statistics_Overall_Key.tex:1.2 loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Statistics_Overall_Key.tex:1.3
--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Statistics_Overall_Key.tex:1.2	Mon May 10 09:59:40 2004
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Statistics_Overall_Key.tex	Mon Jul 12 15:29:02 2004
@@ -6,36 +6,58 @@
 \begin{itemize}
 
 \item \textbf{#Stdnts}
+
 Total number of students attempting the problem.
 
 \item \textbf{Tries}
+
 Total number of attempts to solve the problem.
 
 \item \textbf{Max Tries}
+
 Largest number of to solve the problem by a student.
 
 \item \textbf{Mean Tries}
+
 Average number of tries.
 
 \item \textbf{S.D. tries}
+
 Standard Deviation of the tries.
 
 \item \textbf{Skew Tries}
+
 Skewness of the students tries.
 \[\frac{\sqrt{ \sum{(Xi - Mean)^3} / #Stdnts}}{\sigma^3}\]
 
-\item \textbf{DoDiff}
-Degree of Difficulty of the problem.  
-\[ 1 - \frac{\#YES+\#yes}{Tries} \]
-
 \item \textbf{#YES}
+
 Number of students who solved the problem correctly.
 
 \item \textbf{#yes}
+
 Number of students who solved the problem by override.
 
 \item \textbf{\%Wrng}
+
 Percentage of students who tried to solve the problem but were unable to.
 
+\item \textbf{DoDiff}
+
+Degree of Difficulty of the problem.  
+\[ 1 - \frac{\#YES+\#yes}{Tries} \]
+
+\item \textbf{DoDisc}
+
+Degree of Discrimination of the problem.
+
+The students are grouped based on their scores on the sequence which 
+contains the homework problem.  The percent score of the bottom 25\% of
+the students is subtracted from the percent score the to top 25\% of
+the students.  This yields a number from -1 to 1. 1.0 indicates
+all of the good students answered the problem correctly and none of the
+poor students answered it correctly.  Conversely, a score of -1.0 indicates
+all of the good students got the problem wrong and the bad students did
+well.
 
 \end{itemize}