Test 2 Analysis

Exam was taken on Friday, October 26th, 2012

The test had 37 graded multiple choice questions and 3 ungraded survey questions.  There were originally 38 questions but one was thrown out.

Descriptive Statistics

Number of students: 285 (17 less than test 1)
Median: 29.0/37 (78.4%, 3.3% less than test 1)

Mean: 27.9/37 (75%)
SD: 5.21 (15.7%)
Reliability coefficient: 0.84
Max: 37/37
Min: 7/37

Grade distribution

	Expected on Test 1	Expected on Test 2	Test 1 grades	Test 2 grades
A	45%	28%	31%	18%
B	40%	45%	26%	30%
C	9%	19%	17%	22%
D	2%	3%	10%	12%
F	--	--	17%	19%
NA	5%	5%

* Expected by students - Based on pre-test survey question

MyPsychLab

63 students registered on PsychLab. For students that registered, their average on Test 2 was 4.3 percentage points (79% compared to 74.8%) higher than students that did not register.

Studying

On average students studied/read 2.3 hours the first week of the unit (0.6 less than on Test 1) and 3.5 hours in the second week (0.4 hours more than on Test 1) . 4% of students (n=11) did not study at all but this group of students received an average grade.

There was not a discernible pattern between amount of studying and grade. Bear in mind that this does not necessarily indicate that studying is ineffective, but perhaps that students study to a similar level of familiarity with the material, which takes different lengths of time across students.

Change From Test 1

The following table details how students did on Test 2 compared to Test 1

Changed less than 5% from Test 1	28%
Improved more than 5% from Test 1	26%
Decreased more than 5% from Test 1	45%

Survey Questions

The beginning of the exam included the following 3 optional survey questions. Response rate was 95-96% depending on the question.

Survey text: