The 10 Students with the Highest Scores on a Set

Multiple Choice

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)