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Paner and Pencil <strong>Testing</strong><br />

The Examiner can easily produce multiple forms of paper and pencil tests. By the illtroduction of r~u~rlom<br />

selection options into the profile used to generate the test, a user cm produce two statistically ecluivalerrt<br />

tests on the same subject area. If desired, a unique test could be generated for each examirree. Pil1)e.r ant1<br />

pencil tests can be scored in three Lshions:<br />

Manually Student and instructor’s answer keys can be printed wit11 eaclt test. In manly<br />

instances, hand grading using these forrrls is acceptable.<br />

Stand-Alone Machine<br />

Graded<br />

A “pre-slugged” answer sheet compatible with tile sland-able Scalilraii 888<br />

optical scalner can be produced nn an IIP Lx?er.let II printer. This allows the<br />

easy scoring of mulliple examinations on readily available hardware.<br />

Data-Terminal Scanning ~11 allswer hey is stored internally in The Examiner’s database ant1 can be used<br />

to grade examinee answer sheets. Complete examiriation and item stalislics 111 e<br />

stored when data terminal scanners are used. At p~se~ll, he SC~IIUOII<br />

1300/1400 series scanners are supported. In 1st Quarter 1391, support (01 tile<br />

Scantron 8000/8200 series scanners will be added.<br />

Print options of The Examiner ae currently being elkulceti, and these new featur-es will be r~lc;t.setl irl tl~e<br />

first quarter of 1991. Supported features will be:<br />

PriNers hitid SUppOrt IOf 20 Ol‘dle IllOSt COr1111~01~ pI’illkrs. on cu.slolllel‘ I’qllesl, Ilk! 1” illlcr~<br />

support iiies will be expanded to include atlriilional prillters.<br />

Fonfs Depending OII the printer, font control will be added. With lile l-1 1’ I-;iserJel prirltt?,<br />

numerous font cahdges will be supported in addition to liie dei’auil illlet 11ai I’OII~S.<br />

Highlighting Bold, italic, underlining, superscripts, and subscripts will be available on Ixinlers tl\a~<br />

support liiose features.<br />

Graphics Primed items will include PC-Paintbrusll’” images that are currelitly 01lly available witii<br />

computer-delivered examinations. Pririring will be limited to tllosr pr~irrlers Iilal SUppul’l<br />

graphic printing.<br />

Sr~ggeslcd Implementations<br />

Paper and pencil tests can be made available to examinees under a Ilumber of tliI’l’ereIlI delivery ellvirollmerits.<br />

Tile “unbundlirlg” of p,arrs of Tire Examiner makes it possible 10 Ilave ~lol~-lecl~llical clcric~~l s~l’l<br />

produce on-demand tests at remote sites. Three possible test creation/delivery sceri;irios WC:<br />

Local Control Tests are created using the main Examiner system and are gritlieti at the rlevel~pme~~t sile.<br />

Copies of the item bank remain secure in one place and test creation WWOI is tiglrlly<br />

limited. Tests cal be mailed to remote sites and tilell returned to tile cetl~ral sile ~OI<br />

grading.<br />

Networked Using the network versioll of the stand-alone examillatiorl generalor. wniole sires c;in loc;~ll~<br />

generate tests and score Illem. Witllout access to (lie eclitillg 13io~;~‘~ll~Ih, IlIe s;ccclriry of’ IlIt!<br />

database is maintained wicle provicliq tile collvenience ol’ simuil:uleous multiple xwss to<br />

the items.<br />

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