[LON-CAPA-admin] scantron testing

[Nathan Schoenack]

There's another layer of confusion at work...there's the raw file  
that is produced by the scanning office (5s501.DAT).  Then, the  
scanning office here runs the script s5i100.sas to produce the file  
5s.501.  (The "501" is a designation of the job number).  Does MSU do  
that as well, running a script to create a different output file than  
the one that comes out of the scanner?

Here's all 3 files...

-Nathan
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On Jun 20, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:

> 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.)
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> guy at albertelli.com   0-7-2-5-15,728
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>>>
>>
>> Nathan Schoenack
>> IT Research Support Specialist
>> NDSU Physics
>> (701) 231-7047
>> nathan.schoenack at ndsu.edu
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Nathan Schoenack
IT Research Support Specialist
NDSU Physics
(701) 231-7047
nathan.schoenack at ndsu.edu