{"id":25946,"date":"2017-12-13T12:37:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=25946"},"modified":"2017-12-13T13:07:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T19:07:06","slug":"does-this-question-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2017\/does-this-question-suck\/","title":{"rendered":"Does this question suck?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to create multiple choice questions using the &#8220;formulas type&#8221; question in moodle. I&#8217;m force to make a compromise and I&#8217;m trying to decide if the compromise is sufficiently bad to make the question &#8220;suck&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Untitled-500x285.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Untitled-500x285.png 500w, https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Untitled-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Untitled.png 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, my question is: Does this question suck? If yes, tell me what sucks about it. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be more specific, but I&#8221;m trying to gauge if the compromise works not. Suffice it to say, I&#8217;m not really asking for proof-reading. If there&#8217;s a fixable typo, I want to fix it, so let me know. But if the the thing I consider sub-optimal doesn&#8217;t make it actually suck, I&#8217;m going to go ahead and make a bunch of these. <\/p>\n<p>(BTW: there are lots of things <I>good<\/I> about this question. The formulas question permits lots of randomization, so as coded this question has 5*2*4*4*4*2 variants. It can ask for the impulse or the change in momentum, it has different exponents on the powers, it has different coefficients and so on. So I would really like for the thing that bugs me to be something that most people think doesn&#8217;t suck.  But if it sucks, I don&#8217;t want to make a while bunch of these.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/moodle.org\/mod\/forum\/discuss.php?d=362817&#038;parent=1463480\">Bernat Martinez<\/a>, I can now avoid the thing <I>I<\/I> thought sucked.  Here&#8217;s a different question. Notice the answer options now contain units. Yay!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Untitled-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Untitled-1-500x261.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"261\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Untitled-1-500x261.png 500w, https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Untitled-1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Untitled-1.png 714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to create multiple choice questions using the &#8220;formulas type&#8221; question in moodle. I&#8217;m force to make a compromise and I&#8217;m trying to decide if the compromise is sufficiently bad to make the question &#8220;suck&#8221;. So, my question is: Does this question suck? If yes, tell me what sucks about it. I&#8217;d be more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2017\/does-this-question-suck\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does this question suck?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}