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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 (players x levels of thinking)
NINE-PATCH SOFTWARE 2. Make a Working Copy
Richard A. Hart
315 South Alco Avenue HARD DISK: After copying the
Maryville, MO 64468-2033 original disk to the hard disk,
enter NPEQUAL to expand the ZIP
-------------------------------------- file into a working copy. (Also
see the README.DOC for more help.)
1. Getting Started with BTS-Equalizer
720K DISK: Enter NPEQUAL to
A. Minimum: 512K memory, two 360k expand a master copy into a working
disk drives or one 720K drive. copy.
B. To see disk files, put the disk 360K DISK: This requires two
into drive A: and enter DIR A: working copy disks:
C. Make at least one master copy. 1. Program Disk
Enter the command DISKCOPY A: B: 2. Question File Disk
to copy or NPBT11 B: to extract
the files onto a second disk. Enter NPEQUAL B: to expand the
master copy in drive A into a
D. Program Disk: all files ending working copy on a disk in drive B:
with .EXE, .MNU and .DOC.
Question File Disk: all other The orginal disk containing
sample question files and NPEQUAL.EXE is the one to copy when
those you create. giving away copies.
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 and establish relationships (the
selecting Review or Test (1). wrong answers).
C. To view the data base, select A set of such questions fit
Create or 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.
When asked for a file name,
enter EQCHAP10.IQF. At the highest levels of
thinking, students can construct
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.
Select questions for a current Edit or erase tired and
test by key terms. duplicate questions.
Create test files from your Manual and automatic selection
course notes and old tests. of questions for a test.
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 text books,
these forms. readings, observations, and other
instructional activities.
Hint: When using Video Review,
and typing in your own answer, enter When students are teaching a
any significant part of one or more computer program (TEST WRITER) or
key terms. The computer will then responding to one (VIDEO REVIEW),
seek the complete answer. You will they seem to open up and communicate
be reporting to the computer rather more with receptive faculty.
than selecting from answer options.
7. To Administrators 8. NINE-PATCH
Three levels of thinking can be -------------------------------------
extracted from multiple choice Levels Players*
questions when tests are properly of ---------------------------
administered. 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.