MSC103 Assessment of Learning
MSC103 Assessment of Learning
Finals
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V. ORGANIZING SINGLE VALUE DISTRIBUTION
Preparing Single Value Frequency Distribution
III. ORGANIZING TEST SCORES THROUGH STEM-
AND-LEAF PLOT 1. Arrange the scores in descending order.
2. Tally each score in the tally column
Stem-and-Leaf Plot- A basic stem plot contains two
3. Add the tally marks at the end of each row.
columns separated by a vertical line. The left column
Write the sum in the frequency column.
contains the stems and the right column contains the
4. Sum up all the row tally mark.
leaves. (Example)
STEM LEAF
5 6 VI. PREPARING GROUPED FREQUENCY
DISTRIBUTION
6 7,7,9
Frequency Table describes the distribution of
7 2,4,7,7,8
frequencies.
8 1,2,2,3,4,8
5 Rules to Measure Classes
9 0,2,3,4,
1. The classes must be non- overlapping. Any of
the data should not fall into 2 different classes
IV. ORGANIZING DATA BY MEANS OF at once.
FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION 2. The classes must be continuous and don’t
have gaps.
Frequency- number of times the observation occurs
3. The classes must be exhaustive. There must
Distribution- pattern of frequencies in an be a class for every data value in the data set.
observation 4. The classes must be of equal width; otherwise
Frequency distribution- shows the actual number of the frequency distribution would give a
observations falling in each range or the percentage distorted view of the data.
Class width is found by either subtracting Relative Frequency
the upper (or lower) class limit of one
It is the frequency as compared to the
class from the upper (or lower) limit of
total frequencies of all the numbers OR
the next class.
the fraction of times an answer occurs.
5. The class width should be an odd number so
Provides easy insight into frequency
that the class midpoints have the same place
distribution by facilitating comparison
value as the data.
f
Creating a Grouped Frequency Distribution =
n
1. Find the largest and smallest values. Where: F = Frequency of an individual Item
2. Compute the Range = Maximum-Minimum N = Total Frequencies
Example operations:
1. Strategic thinking
2. Proving answers
3. Techniques in generating knowledge
4. Proving answers and data gathering