Math 444 Autumn 2003 Midterm Grades

Range of Total Scores

Median and Mean both about 61.

This chart shows the total scores of each of the 32 tests.

Results Broken down by Individual Problems

This chart shows mean percentage scores on problems 1 – 5.  The bar #6 is the mean for the total scores again.

From the author's point of view, the first problem was supposed to be challenging and some low scores were expected, but problems 2 and 5 were essentially routine exercises in similar triangles and ratios (with the twist of using letters instead of specific numbers in #2).  The median score for #2 was 0. The poor showing on these basic problems clearly was a major influence on the overall low scores for the test. .