Moodle

Automatic Calculation of Penalties for Quiz Attempts.

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Won't Fix
  • Affects Version/s: 1.6.3
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Quiz
  • Labels:
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  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_16_STABLE

Description

Would it be possible to automatically calculate penalties for wrong answers depending on the number of choices in a multiple-choice question?

This seems like a logical scheme.

For example,
minus 20% if there are 5 choices (0.20)
minus 25% if there are 4 choices (0.25)
minus 33.3% if there are 3 choices
minus 50% if there are 2 choices (Maybe even 100% in this case.)

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Raül Fernández added a comment -

Hi Charles, I think that the penalties that you suggest are no correct.

Penalties are applied because in a random answer, the moment (average value) was 0. For this you have to calculated with the formula:

penaltie = 1/(k+1) where k is the nomber of choices.

(sorry for my poor english )

Raül

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Raül Fernández added a comment - Hi Charles, I think that the penalties that you suggest are no correct. Penalties are applied because in a random answer, the moment (average value) was 0. For this you have to calculated with the formula: penaltie = 1/(k+1) where k is the nomber of choices. (sorry for my poor english ) Raül
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Tim Hunt added a comment -

This only works for multiple-choice single-response, but penalty is a concept that applies to all question types. Therefore I think this is a bad idea.

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Tim Hunt added a comment - This only works for multiple-choice single-response, but penalty is a concept that applies to all question types. Therefore I think this is a bad idea.

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