Word: exam
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However, Kiely said he "would still give out sample exam questions to a review session, but the better way is to make sure the whole class knows about...
...students who knew the information Kiely revealed before the exam--perhaps as much as 40 per cent of the class-averaged about one-third of a grade higher on the exam than the rest of the class, the commission reported...
...commission reached its conclusion that students with advance information did better on the exam by conducting a statistical study of performances on the exam, on a midterm test in the course and on a paper by two groups of students--35 who the commission knew had the advance information, and over 200 others...
...group with advance information did slightly worse on the midterm and the paper than the rest of the class, but on the exam they did one-third of a grade better--the difference between...
However, the commission warned that the results of the survey may be "contaminated" since not all of the people in the class with advance information about the exam were in the advance-information group in the survey...