Updated: 08/11/2005

Changes to Interactive Tests

Some modifications in the testing program have been made to help with security. If the tests are taken in a classroom a security code can be given to the whole class or to each student individually. There is a place to enter these at the top of the tests.

The security codes can be any assigned number or word that can be associated with the specific group or person for the time the test was given. If results of the tests and printed out in the classroom and handed in, a major level of security can be realized.

Links to all of the interactive tests are available here.

For instructor information on these tests, including reporting any errors found, please contact Dr. Whittaker.

Whatever happened to the system of sending test
results to the students and instructors?

For several years we used a system of having students take tests on-line, and the graded test results, along with a list of questions answered wrong, would be sent by e-mail to both the instructor and the student involved.

But, Internet problems sometimes intervened. Students would write saying they took and test and it never arrived in the instructor's mail box. Although some of the problems resulted from typos in e-mail addresses, others seemed to result from Internet problems. In one case the tests of an entire class "disappeared" during a testing period. Understandably, there were many upset people!

For this reason, this system was discontinued and we've gone back to the more reliable paper-and-pencil approach.

In addition to the Interactive tests, the word squares, the interactive matching quizzes, and the interactive crossword puzzle links at the bottom of modules, there are several tests that instructors can get by e-mailing the author at ron@whittaker.net and verifying that you are an instructor.


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