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PerTest® Author
The
PerTest® Author enables the customer to construct tests and assessments that make effective use of the PerTest® personalized
diagnostic and remediation capabilities (including mapping to State or corporate standards).
PerTest® Author also includes XML export functionality,
making it easy to move tests and assessments from one PerTest® system
to another to replicate an existing system or promote to production
(e.g. moving assessments from development,
to QA, to production).
Test and Assessment Authoring
The PerTest® Author allows for easy creation of a test or assessment and supports the following features:
- Multiple item types: Multiple choice, Quantitative comparison, Grid-in, User constructed response, etc...
- Assigning subject matter, difficulty level, strategies, and distractors to items and response alternatives
- Assigning hints and solution explanations to items
- Timed or untimed tests and assessments
- Item attributes to allow customers to assign their own attributes
to items (e.g. cognitive complexity) working in conjunction
with diagnostic analysis plugins
- Score Types to determine how an item is to be scored working
in conjunction with scoring plugins
- Mapping tests, items, and sections to State or corporate standards
- Versioning of tests to keep accurate historical data for reporting while allowing changes to existing released tests
- Deprecating and creating derivatives of tests
- Exporting tests to XML to move between PerTest® systems
Item and Response Alternative Editing
Items and response alternatives can be easily created or edited using the Item and Response Alternative Editor which includes:
- Buttons and menus to include images, equations, mathematical symbols, text formatting, etc...
- Supports XHTML for more complex layout and item stem presentation
- Exact text layout where line numbering is relevant (e.g. reading passages)
- Inclusion of external multimedia resources (e.g. video or sound)
- Inline or popup shared item resources (e.g. multiple items referring to the same diagram)
Item Bank Technology
Quickly create assessments by selecting items from an already existing item bank. Using the PerTest® Author you can search the item bank by:
- Subject matter
- Concepts tested by an item
- State or corporate standards
- Strategies required to answer an item
- Distractors included in an item
- Difficulty level
- Item Attributes
- Stem content
- Date of creation
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