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Original Post - 23 Nov 2022 - Michael H. Scott

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When I come up with “great” exam questions, only a handful of students get the correct answer while the remaining students misunderstand the question.

Same thing happens on social media.

Prior to Twitter’s full-on death spiral, I tweeted a quiz on the MVLEM element, a formulation available in OpenSees for modeling shear walls.

Only 5 out of 37 respondents (13.5%) got the correct answer.

TWITTER POLL

I’ll come up with a better quiz next time. And I’ll make a blog post out of a worked out answer to this quiz.



For now, enjoy a Phil Collins video.

Phil Collins