Since there are 50 questions on the if/ats, and our RATs are usually around 15 questions in length, we often start the test on a question which is not question #1. For example, RAT #1 may start on question #12, and RAT #2 may start on question #28, etc.
We write which question the RAT starts on at the top of the RAT, and we circle it on the if/at so the students are properly oriented.
Another strategy which we use in another course (also with short RATs) is to use the same if/at for multiple RATs. So RAT #1 will be questions 1-10, and RAT #2 will be questions 11-20, etc.
We also purchase multiple if/ats forms--they are inexpensive, as educational technology goes...this allows us to share them in our school with other courses, and even with other schools. Its easy to be generous when they are only 20 cents a sheet :-)
Ruth
Ruth E. Levine MD
Clarence Ross Miller Professor of Psychiatry
The University of Texas Medical Branch
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Galveston, Texas 77555-0193
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Subject: IF-AT versions
Hi again,
I'm curious if anyone has had issues with students realizing that
there are only a few versions of the IF-AT forms? That is, even if you
switch versions of the forms from one RAT to the next, do students
ever realize that the pattern of answers might be the same as an
earlier form? My concern is that I will likely only have two versions
of the form and students will take five or six RATs so there would
have to be some repetition. I know I could get more versions by
ordering more forms but in order to get all five different answer
versions, I would have to order 1250 forms and it would take me YEARS
to use them all - but is that what most people do?
thanks,
Jennifer
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Jennifer Imazeki
Department of Economics
San Diego State University
homepage: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~jimazeki/
Economics for Teachers blog: http://economicsforteachers.blogspot.com
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