Guidelines for taking test.

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IN TABLE OF QUESTIONS

The following paragraphs describe what is contained

in a quiz, how to use the procedure and how to get the most out

of it. A review quiz is a short test intended to give students

an assessment of one's progress in a course. If a student is enrolled

with an instructor for a course, the test settings are those entered

by the instructor. These test parameters cannot be changed by

a student. Consequently, the page where the test parameters are

otherwise changed by a user is skipped. A student can view instructor's

settings in Grade composition. If a student does not have an instructor,

the grade composition and test parameters are set by PEOI administration.

If a student takes a test in a course for which

he/she is not enrolled or signed in, the student him/herself can

modify the test parameters in several ways to fit one's needs

and preferences. In that case the test does not count toward course

grade. Nevertheless, such test can be useful for review purpose.

Again, changing a test parameters for a course in which a student

is enrolled can only be accomplished by the instructor.

Content of quiz

The number of questions included is normally

20 for a quiz and 50 for a comprehensive test. The test is seeded

with questions taken randomly from a data bank of questions for

the specified chapter(s). Only one question per concept is picked.

This may cause the number of questions actually placed in the

test to be less than the one initally requested. Test grades are

calculated as number of correct answers divided by total number

of questions viewed.

The material normally covers just one chapter

but this can be changed. When several chapters are included the

test procedure becomes that of a comprehensive test with no explanation

for wrong answers and computation of grade on total number of

questions in the test, not on the basis of number of viewed questions

in as in a review quiz. Certain portions of a chapter can be excluded

from a test if the chapter is broken down into sections (which

is not the case for review courses).

A registered student can set a time parameter

for a test. The time is expressed in seconds per question: 20,

40, 60, 90, 120 seconds or none.

The type of questions in the quiz can also

be modified. The test bank consists of multiple choice, true/false,

fill-in, calculation, graphics and essay type questions. Naturally,

there are graphics questions only in chapters where graphs are

present in the chapter itself; likewise for calculation questions.

Essay questions do not allow answers and are not part of the grade

calculation. They are offered as examples of questions that would

be asked in a written test. Essay questions do not normally appear

in quizzes except if specifically requested by the student. Fill-in

questions require the exact spelling of the needed word. Pay special

attention to whether the word is normally singular or plural.

The use of capital letters is immaterial.

Procedure of quiz

First, a screen allows the student to change

the parameters of the quiz. Next the quiz is constructed based

on the parameters selected. If no questions are found for the

chosen settings, a new selection is required. Otherwise, a question

table appears with access to any and all questions. The student

can start with any question and move from question to question

at will, or return to the question table to view what is the grade

so far, and which questions have been answered incorrectly.

When answering questions, the question appears

in a box with the choice of possible answers or space for writing

in a fill-in answer. Submitting an answer produces a correction

immediately. If the answer is incorrect, a small window appears

for ten seconds with the text on which the question is based.

That window can be called back by clicking on the "See ..."

box at the bottom of the screen. Only the first answer to a question

counts. A student can read all the questions in the quiz by moving

from question to question before answering any of them.

Ending the test requires returning to the table

of questions and pressing the "END TEST" button in the

upper right of the screen. No record of the quiz results will

be made if the End Test button is not clicked. Moreover, the End

Test procedure deletes the test questions to make room for a new

test. No new test can be started by a student if a previously

started quiz has not been ended properly. Again, as a matter of

courtesy to other students and to free memory space on the server,

you are asked:

DO NOT END TEST WITHOUT

CLICKING ON THE END TEST BUTTON.

After quiz

Any quiz can be retaken any number of times

desired. Only the highest grade for that quiz is included in course

grade. Note, that the test is seeded with different questions

each time. It is not useful to memorize answers to questions.

If an unsatisfactory grade is obtained, the recommended and most

productive strategy is to read the chapter again and to answer

all the review questions for that chapter, before returning to

take the quiz anew.

After completing a quiz, a registered and enrolled

student is asked to leave a feedback evaluation. Once again, the

test results and the feedback are saved only if the student clicks

on END TEST at the bottom of the feedback page. The feedback is

used by faculty and administration to improve the material on

the web site and adapt it better to users' needs. Comments are

especially useful and can be left at that time or in an email

message. A student can review his/her entries by clicking on Evaluation

later, and can also modify them at that time. The feedback entries

can only be viewed by the student him/herself, your instructor

(if any) and the administration. Student overall feedback evaluation

averages without details are part of statistics.

A registered, enrolled and signed in student

can access his/her personal record by clicking on Grade Book to

see how the course cumulative average has changed as a consequence

of the test just taken. Naturally, this is possible only if the

student is registered, enrolled in that course and has signed

in. Remember that registration is free and confidential .

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