The 10 Students with the Highest Scores on a Set

question 15

Multiple Choice

The 10 students with the highest scores on a set of 8 assessment tasks had the following distribution of scores on one of the assessment tasks that was scored on a 3-point scale: 1 (1 student) , 2 (5 students) , 3 (4 students) .Which of the following distributions of scores for the 10 lowest scoring students indicates that the task discriminated negatively?

• A)1 (3 students), 2 (4 students), 3 (3 students)
• B)1 (5 students), 2 (5 students), 3 (0 students)
• C)1 (9 students), 2 (1 student), 3 (0 students)
• D)1 (0 students), 2 (3 students), 3 (7 students)

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