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CREATING EXAMS OR QUIZES
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It is really quite easy to create an exam or quiz for the
students. Moreover, you may use two different means of entering
items. Items may be prepared using your own word processor or
text editor or they may be entered from the keyboard.
The next screens explain how to enter exam items using each of
these two methods.
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ENTERING ITEMS FROM THE KEYBOARD
If you choose to enter items from the keyboard when creating a
new exam or quiz, you need only enter the items exactly as you
want them to appear on screen for the students. DO NOT USE ITEM
NUMBERS FOR EXAM OR QUIZ ITEMS.
When you choose the keyboard entry option for creating a new
quiz, the program will provide you with explicit instructions as
to how to proceed.
Once you have entered and retained an item, you must then enter
the exact answer for the item.
You may enter as many items as you wish for any quiz.
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ENTERING ITEMS FROM A DISK FILE
If you choose to create a new exam or quiz using a text editor
or word processor, you need only enter the items exactly as you
want them to appear on screen for the students. DO NOT USE ITEM
NUMBERS FOR EXAM OR QUIZ ITEMS.
Suppose, for example, that you wish to create the fourth quiz
and you want to store the items on a diskette in a file named
QUIZ-4.TXT. You need only create the QUIZ-4.TXT file using your
word processor and then enter your items and the answers to them.
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STRUCTURING YOUR QUIZ DATA FILE
When creating your quiz-item data file, you must use the
following simple rules.
1. No line of a quiz item may exceed 65 characters.
2. No quiz item may contain more than 17 lines.
3. You must indicate the end of an item by placing an * in the
first column of the line following the item.
4. The line following the * must contain the exact answer for
the item.
You may enter as many items as you wish for any quiz.
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Once you have created a quiz-item data file, you may enter your
quiz items as a new exam or quiz. When you select that option,
the program will instruct you as to how to proceed.
EXAMPLES FOR QUIZ-ITEM DATA FILES
The next screen provides an example of how you would structure
three items for your quiz-item data file.
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Gravity causes objects to rise.
*
F
Which of the following statements is more often correct?
a Horses are faster than Zebras
b Airplanes are faster than automobiles
c Uncles are taller than aunts
d None of the above
(Press a lower case letter)
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b
A great many different philosophers of science claim that there
are four, and only four, ways of "knowing".
*
T
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TYPES OF EXAM ITEMS YOU MAY WRITE
The only real restriction on the types of items that you may
write is the format and length of the item. Each item must
consist of 17 or fewer lines, and each item MUST be followed by
an exact answer to the item.
Given this degree of flexibility in writing exam or quiz items,
you can see that a wide variety of items may be used by ICES.
The following screens illustrate some of the types of items that
you can create.
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TRUE-FALSE ITEMS
The arithmetic mean marks the 50th percentile of a
distribution.
T F
The median is computed as the sum of values divided by the
number of values.
T F
The variance of a sample is the arithmetic mean of the
values of x = (X-M)^2 where M is the mean and X represents
raw scores.
T F
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MULTIPLE CHOICE ITEMS
For a rectilinear distribution the mean and median are:
a Slightly different
b Exactly the same
c Considerably different
d Always equal to zero
For a normal distribution the mean and median are:
a Slightly different
b Exactly the same
c Considerably different
d Always equal to zero
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NUMBER PROBLEMS
Compute the mean of the following values and enter your answer
to three decimal positions.
12 43 56 83 11 24
A history class obtains a mean quiz grade of 72 with a
standard deviation of 11. Tom has a score of 83.
Assume that the class scores are normally distributed.
What percent of the class obtained a quiz grade lower
than Tom's? (To one decimal, please.)
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EXACT ANSWERS ARE REQUIRED
You must indicate to the students that exact answers are always
required. Thus, if you write a 'true-false' item and indicate
that the response options are 'T' and 'F', you should tell the
students to enter the choices as shown. In this example, you
should make sure the correct answer is an upper case T or F since
that is what you showed for the item.
For number problems, you must also indicate the exact precision
that is required. Thus, if you have entered the correct answer
to three decimal positions, you must tell the students to do so
as well.
The reason for this is simple. ICES does a LITERAL comparison
between the correct answer as you specified it and the answer
that is provided by the students. The item will be scored as
'correct' only when the match between your answer and the
student's is exact.
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ADMINISTERING THE EXAMS
Once you have created an exam or quiz, you must make some
choices as to how ICES will administer it to the students. Those
choices are specified by choosing the 'Exam Administration
Criteria' option in the 'Setup' menu.
By choosing that option you may then indicate the number of
times that you will permit any student to take any specific exam
or quiz. You may also indicate the number of items that you wish
to be included in each of the administered exams.
If you have a generous nature, you may allow the students to
take the quizes as many times as they wish. If you prefer a more
stringent testing environment, you may wish to allow students to
take each quiz only once or twice. The choice is yours.
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EXAM CREATION BY ICES
ICES tries desperately to present each student with a random
selection of items from those which you have written for a
particular exam or quiz. If it is permitted to do that, students
will then find it difficult to share information about the 'right
answers' for any quiz. However, if you want ICES to do all that
for you, it needs your help. In short, you must write more items
than you want presented for each exam or quiz.
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If you write N number of items for any quiz and then indicate
that you want N or more items to be presented, then ICES has no
choice but to present all of your items to the students. Thus,
for example, if you have written 10 items for a quiz and you
indicate that you want 10 items (or more) to be presented to the
students, ICES will present all 10 of your quiz items to every
student.
On the other hand, if you write, say, 30 items for a quiz and
indicate you want each quiz to present 10 items, then ICES will
randomly select 10 of your 30 items for presentation to the
students.
The more items you create for any quiz, the more unique will be
each quiz that is presented to the students.
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STUDENT ACCESS TO EXAMS AND QUIZES
An additional feature of ICES is that you may control student
access to the exams or quizes. The system allows you to use an
'exam access password' as a means of controlling student access
to the exams or quizes. You must specify that access password at
the time you create the student passwords for your course.
If you use an * as the exam access password, students may then
take any quiz at any time they wish and you will have no chance
to supervise the administration of the exams or quizes.
If you use any other exam access password, the students will
not be able to take an exam or quiz until you or your teaching
assistant first enters the access password. By using this
feature of ICES you retain the ability to supervise the testing
environment.
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