The LiveCase methodology has two scoring methodologies:
- A generic score
- Scores based on the content of the case
Both are averages, so whatever score you get on a question will be averaged with the other questions to give you a final score.
Tldr
- Individual questions are scored out of 1000 points.
- An episode score is the average of all the scored questions
- A season score is the average of all the episodes that have a scores
- A case score is the average of all episodes that have scores
Question scoring
A question is scored out of 1000 points.
If the player has the correct answer, they will receive 1000 points. If they answer incorrectly, they will get 0 points.
If a timer is set on the question, the rules change slightly. 60% of the 1000 points will be given for the correct answer and the remaining 40% will be a ratio based on how long they took to answer (even if they get the wrong answer).
Example
Let's say you have a scored question with a timer for 100 secs. If the player takes 23secs to answer:
- Time points: the player will receive 40% of 1000 points times the time ratio (aka 1000 x 0.4 x (100 -23) / 100 ), so 308 points
- Correct answer: if the player answers correctly, we will add 60% of the 1000 points to the time points (aka 1000 x 0.6 ), so 600 points
Giving the player a total of 308 + 600 = 908 points.
Episode scoring
Because of the dynamic nature of Livecase, players can have a various number of scored questions (one player might have no question, while the other has 5). For this reason, Livecase does an average of scores so that they are comparable.
Characteristic Scores
Case-specific scores, also called Characteristic Scores, are based on the content of the case. These will vary depending on the content of the case and could include categories such as Leadership, Communication, etc. These scores are also averages, but the scoring system is decided by the case author. It could be out of 5, 10, 20, 100, etc., and is at the author's discretion.