Follow-up descriptive study of how proportioning marks between coursework and examination affects the performance of students in nursing

Table 3 Actual and modelled data of overall marks, grades, and passing/failing percentages

Data type	% coursework/% exam	Overall mark N = 379	Grade N = 379	Additional students passing¹ (% passing)	Additional students failing² (% failing)
Actual	60%/40%	71 ± 11	5.3 ± 1.0	(97.4%)	(2.6%)
Modelled	80%/20%	78 ± 9	5.9 ± 0.9	1/10 (97.6%)
Modelled	100%/0%	84 ± 8	6.4 ± 0.8	5/11 (98.4%)
Modelled	40%/60%	65 ± 13	4.7 ± 1.1		39/379 (10.3%)
Modelled	20%/80%	58 ± 15	4.1 ± 1.3		96/379 (25.3%)
Modelled	0%/100%	51 ± 18	3.5 ± 1.5		162/379 (42.7%)

1. Additional students passing of the completing students who had failed (% passing of completing students). 2. Additional students failing of the completing students (% failing of completing students). Mark values are the mean ± SD (number of students).

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