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        Student: Review, Tutor, and Test  . . . .  1
                 Writing Reviews and Reports  . .  2
                
        Teacher: Writing Questions and Tests  . .  3
                 Review, Tutor, and Test  . . . .  4

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Each question can be presented in five forms.  If you cannot 
answer with confidence, press the <Enter> key for the next 
form or until the answer is given.

  (4) STUDENT:      Enter a query, a part of an answer you
                    would expect in a right answer.

  (3) SCHOLAR:      Enter an answer with the question stem
                    blanked.

  (2) SCIENTIST:    Select wrong answers until one is left.

  (1) PUPIL:        Make your best educated guess.

  (0) TOURIST:      Gamble that random chance will select an
                    acceptable answer.

There are three answering modes:

  (1) CRAM:         For the student in a hurry. (Cram notes
                    can also be printed out.)

  (2) PRACTICE:     An error repeating practice test.

  (3) TEST:         A practice test or a real test that can 
                    be used for a course test score.

           PROGRESS RECORDS (SCORES\PROGRESS.TXT)

Clicking the <PROG> button presents a graph of your progress.

  1.  Answering each question as it is presented.

      This is what many students do.  It is easy to do.
      Mark the test and let the teacher tell you what you
      know (or guessed).  Your progress graph will show a
      line wandering toward your final score (Kn).

  2.  Reporting what you know or can reason.

      This requires making two or more passes through the
      test.  On the first pass answer only when confident you
      know or can reason the answer.  On the second pass use
      educated guessing.  On the third or last pass just
      guess.  Your progress graph line will show a marked rise
      above the line above.  This difference is your judgment,
      your ability to tell your teacher what you know.  The
      result is your knowledge and judgment (KJ) score.

      Taking a test in this fashion, in general, produces a
      higher score than just working through the test in one
      pass.  One or both scores can be used in setting grades.


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Run the Test Scoring Demonstration to see the progress graph 
when reporting what you know rather than guessing at answers.
Take a test on one of the sample question files.  Explore
the levels of questioning.  Get the feel of knowing what you
know and what you do not know.  Click the Progress button to
follow your test strategy.  Visualize in your mind the magic
of descriptive paragraphs.  Then write Review Questions.

                           REVIEW

Create a question file for each assignment by following the
on-screen instructions.  Share, edit and work with your
classmates in a team in school and at home.

                           REPORT

A Review Question File (RQF) is a record of the questions
you or your team asked to make sense of an assignment plus
the answers considered that turned out to be right and wrong.  
RQFs are a means of communicating understanding as well as 
facts.  Your teacher can score the file as a report.

The "system" for doing this is:

1. Make two lists of all important terms and concepts:

   A. These I know and understand.

   B. These I do not know.

2. Start with the list of things you know and understand.
   Pick one and write a description based on your
   experience, real or imaginary, as a question stem.  Enter
   the term as the label or right answer.  You can stop
   there and go on to the next term or concept.

   Or you can add as a second right answer another term that
   is LIKE the first.  And up to four wrong answers, terms
   that are NOT LIKE the right answers.  Or are close but
   not acceptable.  Or you confuse with the right answers.

3. Then work on the list of things you do not know.  Read,
   observe, discuss, and question until you can make sense
   of the item.  Then write a description with answers as
   you did for the items on the first list.


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                          WRITING

The test writer prompts input for a seven part paragraph:

   (1)   a descriptive stem
   (2-3) acceptable labels or answers
   (4-7) related labels and answers that are not acceptable

Only parts 1 and 2 are required for short answer tutoring or
assessment.  Each question is limited to one screen.

Questions can be entered in any order and in any degree of
completeness, just as they occur.  They can be edited later.

Teachers with at least one computer in the classroom, can
turn writing into a class exercise.  Enter a question stem
and let the students supply labels or acceptable answers.
Then ask what is NOT like the acceptable answer(s) for wrong
answers.  What is close, but outside acceptable limits?
What do they find confusing but not acceptable?  BIG TYPE
makes the screen readable from 10 to 12 feet away.

                           TESTS

The following Question Files are copied into the TESTS folder
or directory when the program installs.  All new and edited
unformatted question files are saved to the TESTS
folder also.  Only the last edited copy is saved.

DTEST1  .UQF     The five types of questions.
ESAMOD1 .IQF     Entomology, introduction, ESA Module 1.
MODRIV1 .IQF     Missouri driver's license, roads and signs.
SCIMAT4 .IQF     Scientific Literacy, the atom.
SFAA4   .IQF     Science Literacy, the physical setting.
SGW1QST .RQF     Biology, methods and concepts.

Formatted tests and other text files are saved to the
PRINTOUT folder or directory.  All copies (versions) for paper 
tests are saved.  Use any word processor to print them out.  

Test results are saved to the SCORES folder or directory.


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Question files are presented at five levels of thinking:

  (4) STUDENT:      Responds to questions without seeing any
                    answers.

  (3) SCHOLAR:      Edits answers to a question that must be
                    visualized.

  (2) SCIENTIST:    Selects wrong answers until one is left.

  (1) PUPIL:        Selects right answer by educated guessing.

  (0) TOURIST:      Gambles that random chance will select
                    an acceptable answer.

There are three answering modes:

  (1) CRAM:         A sequential order with errors
                    repeating using levels 4, 3 and 1.

  (2) PRACTICE:     A random order with errors repeating using
                    all five levels.

  (3) TEST:         A random order without errors repeating
                    but the correct answer is given using
                    the traditional multiple-choice level 1.

Test results can be used as class scores for grades.
CRAM and PRACTICE are limited to 200 responses.

          OLD REPORT RECORDS (SCORES\OLDREPRT.TXT)

   Report ID        Student name or ID
   Review Name      Test file name
   Mod              Mode: Cram, Practice, or Test
   %RT              Percent right
   PTT              Number of Passes Through the Test
   %KJ              Percent score from Knowledge and Judgment
   %Kn              Percent score from Traditional Knowledge
   Lrn              Learn     (Cram and Practice)
   Rpt              Report    (Cram and Practice)
   Com              Complete  (Cram and Practice)
   TIF              Total number of questions In question File
   Date             Month, day, and year
   Time             24 hour time
   Min              Time in minutes on cram, practice or test
   Rit              Number of Right responses
   Wrg              Number of Wrong responses
   Pas              Number of Questions Passed
   Tot              Total number of responses (Rit, Wrg, Pas)


