[LON-CAPA-admin] scantron testing

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

First, sorry for the confusion with the mailing list - the email that  
suddenly popped up today was the first response I had written, but it  
was stuck for moderation because the attachment was too large -  
somebody just released it. I hope you more immediately received the  
other messages I had sent, with a link to the image of the forms we use.

Please send us a file produced by your Scoring Office.

Also, since it's both NCS, maybe the software from our Scoring Office  
would run at your place?

On Jun 20, 2005, at 3:52 PM, Nathan Schoenack wrote:

> To be honest (normally I'm full of deceit), I'm not entirely  
> confident that I can figure it out; I thought I'd do what I've  
> described because it makes sense to me and I'm sure I could get it  
> to work.  I've looked at the format of the files that are produced  
> by our scanning office, looked at the format of the file Stuart  
> made available (http://www.msu.edu/~raeburn/scantron/ 
> decscoresfinal.txt) and the scantronformat.tab file, and I feel  
> there's something I'm just not understanding.  I'd like to do it  
> (fully randomized, individualized tests), but I don't think I can  
> figure it out on my own.  If anyone wants to help me, I'm all ears.
>
> -Nathan
>
> On Jun 20, 2005, at 2:24 PM, Guy Albertelli II wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Nathan,
>>
>>
>>
>>> Thanks, Gerd.  We use NCS as well.  After talking to our professors
>>> that wish to implement 'some' form of randomized testing, it appears
>>> we'll be using randomized tests, but not a different randomization
>>> for everyone; instead, we will generate 5-10 tests and then prepare
>>> keys for each version, letting the scanning office grade them.  It
>>> will still be necessary to get the NCS form that you've scanned  
>>> so we
>>> can still use the A-J based "code" to differentiate the different
>>> test versions.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Is there any reason you don't want Lon-CAPA to the grading?
>>
>> (Lon-CAPA works well with printing out a few versionsand passing  
>> those
>> out, it doesn't require that students each get a unique exam.)
>>
>>
>> -- 
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>
> Nathan Schoenack
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