Specializes in Ortho, Neuro, Detox, Tele. That may be true, but no one wants to be the patient of a nurse who gets by and "depends" on a curve. We have a lot we are expected to know. If we don't, it may have implications for the care of patients. If a question is worded unfairly, or if the entire class got it wrong due to an error in the question, our instructors will generally throw it out. However, you cannot depend on that.
You have to know what you need to know to get the grade to pass the test. If you have a bad one or two, so be it. Then you have to find a new way to study and just do it. I don't want to be the one who gets the C by the curve or the one who gets a 95 and finds out that my 95 does not get improved as much as the student who got a That would leave me a little PO'd!
I don't think the tests should be curved. It's actually against policy at most schools out here. I think that her instructor needs to improve her teaching skills so her students absorb more of the material on the test. We are paying a lot of money to learn how to be competent health professionals. We deserve good instruction.
After all, these students aren't stupid, or they never would have made into the program. Our class average for almost every test has been in the 60's but its because of the same people doing poorly on every test. Think it all you want, there are harder classes out there with people doing a lot better on the exams. Harder than what? What class is she taking? I didn't think she mentioned the class.
More power to you if you are getting through school without "help" from a decent instructor. I'll leave you to it. Like I said before, think it all you want. As nurses we should strive to increase our status through extensive, even rigourous academic preparation.
Public schools rely on average, below average, or above-average test scores to identify how well a group of students learns. In some cases, students may be compared to their peers in the school district, county or state. With the rollout of the Common Core State Standards, which established a common set of academic guidelines for states across the country, students may more frequently be compared to their peers nationally.
Other times, school officials distinguish average students from others to see who's on grade level or how well an individual child performs in school compared to classmates on nationally normed tests. In special education, average test scores are particularly useful in standardized evaluations and in tests designed by teachers. Educators determine the average by adding a set of numbers and dividing the sum by the total number of numerals used in calculating that sum, also known as the mean.
Anyone who's been graded on a curve likely knows the concept well. Teachers and specialists can use averages to determine the "middle" group of test-takers. So how do educators proceed once they've identified the average? Teachers and specialists may use averages to monitor the rate at which the class is learning the material. Teachers also use averages to estimate where an individual student's scores place them in relation to the rest of the class.
This is especially important for students with learning disabilities. Educators may also use averages to measure how an individual students' abilities rate on tests used to diagnose learning disabilities. Sometimes educators and analysts use other methods to identify an average score. Rather than the mean, they may refer to the median, or the 50th percentile, which represents the score in the exact middle of the list of numbers.
You might have learned about finding the mean or median of a set of numbers in math class. They may be used interchangeably with the term "average," but mean and median can be very different numbers, so take care when calculating. Want an example of an average? See if you can figure out the mean test score with the following information.
Suppose six students scored 72, 75, 78, 82, 84, and 92 on a test. To calculate the average, add the test scores together and divide the sum by six. The average score would be Anyone with basic math skills can determine an average. If you are trying to find the median of the same set of numbers, you would identify the exact middle score. Since there is an even amount of numbers and thus no exact middle, you average the two middle scores 78 and 82 to arrive at a median of In this case, the mean and median are very close, but that is not always the case.
If your child scores below average on a standardized test, don't panic. I've known since then that the Bell curve is at best a misguided idea. This really hit home for me as I was taking an ethics class as part of my Masters. The prof walked in one day, looking quite depressed, and said that he had just come from a meeting with the Dean and that he now had to impose a bell curve on our marks. Talk about an outcry. The main comment was that we were already a group of very bright students and how could they then abritrarily require that a certain percentage fail.
It was a very powerful lesson for all of us. Wednesday, June 27, What is your ideal class average? Let's pretend you care about class average. If your ideal class average is less than a perfect score than I fear that success in your class is artificially and arbitrarily scarce. Reflecting upon one's beliefs can be a very productive use of time, and I can think of no better time to do so than when we have come to mindlessly accept something as a given truth.
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