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One of Test Pilot's most powerful features, and one of those that sets it above its competition, is it powerful support of question grouping. We go far beyond the simple grouping of questions allowed by competing products. You can do ALL of the following since you may make as many groups as you wish and questions may belong to multiple groups. Only enabled groups actually appear on a generated assessment. That you can have active and inactive groups, turning them on and off as you see fit.
Test Pilot uses groups to determine what questions will appear on the web pages it generates for your participants. That is, you may define a set of groups specifying that a set of questions is to be given to participant. You can, for each group, independently direct Test Pilot to make a random selection of questions. For example, you could segregate questions by subject and have a group of questions on the civil war and another group of questions on the revolutionary war and instruct Test Pilot to pick three Civil War questions and 4 Revolutionary War questions. Another use of groups might be to segregate questions by week in a course. That is, you could create groups for week 1 questions and another group for week 2 questions... Where Test Pilot excels is that you can use groups in many manners at once. That is you could use the weekly groups to control what questions appear on a given week's assessment AND use another set of groups to track progress in subject areas. For example, assume that you have a set of weekly groups as discussed above. You could also have the set of groups on the two wars as discussed above. Then , when a participant makes a submission, Test Pilot computes the participant's perfomance based on both the set of questions offered AND a set of partial scores for each subject area. Furthermore, you can issue custom feeback based, not only upon their aggregate score, but on any or all of the partial scores. For example, at the end of a week one quiz, you could indicate, based upon their performance, that the participant needs more study on the Civil War. There is no other product for computer-based assessment that offers this flexibility and power. At the top of the Choose Questions page is a list of all groups created for your assessment. When you begin editing, a single group, default group, is used to collect your questions for presentation.
The list shows each group name, whether it is used to determine which questions are presented to participants (used for generation), a count of questions in the group and if a random selection is to be made, how many questions should be selected. If you are using multiple groups that are marked used for generation, the groups are presented in the top to bottom order as shown on this list. To create a new group, simply enter a name for the new group in the space provided and click the create button. To edit any particular group, simply click on its title. Click here to learn about editing groups. To delete a group, check the group's delete button. Reordering Questions There is a button shown at the top of the question selection page that allows you to reorder the questions in your question bank. Please note that this order has nothing to do with the order of presentation to participants. That order is controlled by the question's position within the groups that are enabled for generation. This question reordering button is for the convenience of the author who may wish to order questions in a particular order for editing.
If you want to learn about how to order your questions for display to the participants, click here. Click here to learn more about question reordering for author convenience. Help is Available! Please note that, at any time while you are editing an assessment, you can click upon the titles of the fields listed for your entries. If you do so, a popup window with an explanation of the items use and features will be shown. Saving your Changes - Don't Forget to Update It should be noted that on the editing panels, you will see one or more Update buttons. Whenever you adjust a setting or make changes to any item, you must click an update button to record the changes. You may make multiple changes and then click Update, but if you fail to click the update button, your changes may not be recorded. The mode popup menu allows you to adjust access to Test Pilot features and trim the detail of the automatically provided assistance for authoring.
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