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DISK LEAFLET
Outside 1. Getting Started with BTS-Equalizer
2. Make a Working Copy
3. A Quick Tour of BTS-Equalizer
4. The Multiple-Choice Question
Inside 5. To Students
6. To Faculty
7. To Administrators
8. NINE-PATCH (3 players x 3 levels of thinking)
NINE-PATCH SOFTWARE 2. Make a Working Copy
Richard A. Hart
315 South Alco Avenue HARD DISK: After copying
Maryville, MO 64468-2033 the backup or install file, NPBT19,
extract the program files. Enter
-------------------------------------- GO, NP, and EQ to explore. (Also
see the README.DOC for more help.)
1. Getting Started with BTS-Equalizer
720K DISK: Copy, extract and
A. Minimum: 512K memory, two 360k explore as on a hard disk.
disk drives or one 720K drive.
360K DISK: This requires two
B. To see disk files, put the disk working copy disks:
into drive A: and enter DIR A:
1. Program Disk, all files not
C. Make at least one master copy. ending in .IQF and .DMO
Enter the command DISKCOPY A: B: and MANUAL.DOC.
to copy the entire disk.
2. Files ending in .IQF and
D. The backup or install file, .DMO and MANUAL.DOC.
NPBT19, can end with .EXE or
.ZIP. The .EXE file will self- When the review & test program
extract when you enter NPBT19. fails to find the files on disk 2,
The .ZIP file requires use of enter E to edit the COMMON PATH.
a program called PKUNZIP 2.04g. Enter B:\ if disk 2 is in drive B.
3. A Quick Tour of BTS-Equalizer 4. The Multiple Choice Question
A. Enter EQ to run the program As an instructional item, the
(after entering A: or B: to the multiple choice question is just
change to the correct disk a paragraph. It contains a main
drive). sentence (the question stem) and two
related phrases (the right answers).
B. View questions, to be answered Intervening sentences set limits and
at three levels of thinking, by establish relationships (the wrong
selecting Review and Test (1). answers).
C. To view the data base, select A set of such questions fit
Create and Edit (2) and then: together as paragraphs in a short
essay, in a rational order. At the
Print Cram Notes and Files (3) lowest level of thinking the set
or must be so complete, the reviewer
Select and Edit Questions (2). needs to bring nothing else to the
study session.
If asked to make any changes
permanent, enter N for NO. At the highest levels of
thinking, students can write
D. To see DOC file contents, enter Instructional Question Files (IQF)
TYPE A:filename.DOC | MORE as individual or group projects
or select from BTS-Equalizer and edit the sample IQF files.
menu options.
5. To Students 6. To Faculty
Practice tests on the computer Quickly create new questions
or print cram notes. over current material.
Edit IQFs to match your course, Create or edit student written
text, and learning background. IQFs for remediation and makeup.
Create test files from your Score student authored IQFs
course notes and old tests. as performance assessments.
When creating questions, work in Successfull task completion
groups of two to four. Print out the in a time period that encourages
forms for Critical Reading with learning.
Question Formation. A computer is
not needed to create questions using A supplement to textbooks,
these forms. readings, observations, and other
instructional activities.
Hint: When using Review and Test
and typing in your own answer, enter When students are reviewing, or
any significant part of one or more creating, a record of the questions
key terms. The computer will then they needed to ask to make sense of
seek the complete answer. You will an assignment, to be of value, they
be reporting to the computer rather seem to open up and communicate more
than selecting from answer options. with receptive faculty.
7. To Administrators 8. NINE-PATCH
Three levels of thinking can be -------------------------------------
extracted from multiple choice Levels Players*
questions when they are administered of ---------------------------
as free-choice assessments. Thinking Enrollee Faculty Admin.
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The responsibility needed to
learn at higher levels of thinking 2 Student Professor College
is rewarded.
1 Pupil Teacher School
Self-judgment, the foundation
skill needed to learn at higher 0 Tourist Lecturer Retreat
levels of thinking, is rewarded.
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Without self-judgment, all other
educational methods remain at the The nine voices heard in the open
concrete level of thinking or below. enrollment, oversized classroom: any
classroom in which the feedback is
Students and faculty become too slow to maintain learning.
equals in making sense of assigned
readings and observations at all * At the high school level, Professor
levels of thinking in preparation for and College can be replaced with
forced-choice tests and free-choice equivalent indicators of the use of
assessments. all levels of thinking.