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Harmonizing multiple choice question marks with essay marks.

D Ashby·D N Baron
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Many examinations contain both a multiple choice question (MCQ) section, which has wide-marking and is often norm-based, and an essay or other section which is criterion-based and often close-marked. The necessary addition or averaging of the marks is unsatisfactory without adjustment. We propose a procedure that adjusts the MCQ marks to the essay marking scale by equating the interquartile ranges of the two sets of marks.

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D Ashby, D N Baron. 1986. Harmonizing multiple choice question marks with essay marks.. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.1986.tb01373.x

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