The 10 students with the highest scores on a set of 8 assessment tasks had the following distribution of scores on one of the assessment tasks that was scored on a 3-point scale: 1 (1 student), 2 (5 students), 3 (4 students).Which of the following distributions of scores for the 10 lowest scoring students indicates that the task discriminated negatively?
A)1 (3 students), 2 (4 students), 3 (3 students)
B)1 (5 students), 2 (5 students), 3 (0 students)
C)1 (9 students), 2 (1 student), 3 (0 students)
D)1 (0 students), 2 (3 students), 3 (7 students)

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A negatively discriminating task means that lower scoring students perform better than higher scoring students. In option D, the lowest scoring students have more high scores (3s) than the highest scoring students, indicating negative discrimination.

The 10 Students with the Highest Scores on a Set