Statistical approach on grading the student achievement via normal mixture modeling

• Main Authors: Md. Desa, Zairul Nor Deana, Mohamad, Ismail, Mohd. Khalid, Zarina, Md. Zin, Hanafiah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit UTM Press 2006
• Subjects: QA Mathematics
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/7943/1/JTDIS45C%5BF%5DZairul_Nor_Deana.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/7943/; http://www.penerbit.utm.my/onlinejournal/45/C/JTDIS45C6.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The purpose of this study is to compare results obtained from three methods of assigning letter grades to students’ achievement. The conventional and the most popular method to assign grades is the Straight Scale method (SS). Statistical approaches which used the Standard Deviation (GC) and condit...