RE: [Aimmath-developers] Multipart questions ... a little trap

[Chris S. <san...@fo...>]

Gustav

I disagree with the suggestion that all parts must be answered.  I intend
to use the multi-part questions to allow intermediate steps to be answered
*if needed* by the student, under some circumstances.  This will not
hinder good students who can work through the multi-part problem unaided.  
But will allow a weak student to gain some partial credit (and feedback I
hope) for intermediate answers.

Chris


On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Gustav W Delius wrote:

> 
> > Initially, I thought that perhaps some extra code should be included to
> > prevent a student from answering later parts if the former parts were
> > not already answered, but I think there are plenty of cases where it
> > makes sense for students to answer the parts in any order ... so the
> > quiz coder just needs to be aware of the potential problem and write
> > questions accordingly.
> 
> I am strongly in favour of imposing the requirement on the student to answer
> the parts of a multi-part question in the correct order. I would be happy to
> have this requirement on all multi-part questions. I do not quite see the
> need for multi-part questions that can be answered in any order. Even in
> those cases where it would make sense to answer them in any order, what is
> wrong with following the given order? So I think the AiM code should be
> changed. Writing AiM questions is complicated enough as it is, having to put
> in extra checks into the question code is not desirable.
> 
> What do others think?
> 
> Many thanks to Greg for discovering this issue.
> 
> Gustav
> 
> 
> 
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