{"id":132,"date":"2009-10-19T15:47:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T22:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2009\/10\/exam-2-results.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:13:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:13:04","slug":"exam-2-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2009\/10\/exam-2-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Exam #2 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exam #2 has been graded and is available for you to pick up in Kathy Kennedy&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy will be out of the office on Th-F during Fall Break so please stop by early in the week if you want your exam back. If you would like to meet with me, I will be here the rest of Monday afternoon and most of the day on Tuesday. I will be out of town from W-Su.<br \/><!--more-->The results for the exam were both better and worse than I had expected. First, the good news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the top two scores were actually higher on this exam than on exam #1<\/li>\n<li>the median score was 73, which was about 5 points higher than I was expecting \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>the median was almost the same as exam #1 (75)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, the &#8220;other&#8221; news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the distribution of scores was broader this time around, with fewer scores in the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s, but not unusually broad when compared with other Chem 201 classes<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>4 scores at 90+ (7 scores at 90+ on exam #1)<\/li>\n<li>11 scores at 80-89 (21 scores at 80-89 on exam #1)<\/li>\n<li>20 scores at 70-79<\/li>\n<li>12 scores at 60-69<\/li>\n<li>16 scores at 59 or less (4 scores at 59 or less on exam #1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>The number of people with seriously low scores (59 or less) has expanded.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As<br \/>\nwas to be expected, the material has gotten harder. This means some<br \/>\nstudents will have to work harder (or differently) in order to regain<br \/>\nthe levels displayed on exam #1. If you would like to talk about how you work, what you might be able to do differently, or what seems to be interfering with your progress,<br \/>\n<u>please stop by<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>Answers haven&#8217;t been posted yet, but it won&#8217;t be long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exam #2 has been graded and is available for you to pick up in Kathy Kennedy&apos;s office.Kathy will be out of the office on Th-F during Fall Break so please stop by early in the week if you want your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5163,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/5163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}