You can create tests in VISION by using the Main Menu, which is useful if you already have a Workbench opened.
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An Overview of Making Tests
Using the VISION Test Generator, the test process involves several general activities:
•First, you create a test by identifying the units (lessons or objectives, for example) that you want to test. The units define a pool of questions. Some or all of the questions in the pool are then selected for the test, either manually or automatically according to a test profile. Other properties of the test are defined by you to complete the test creation. When you’ve created the test, the next step is to build the test. Once the test is built, you can use it right away by generating the end document to administer, or you can save the test for later use.
•If you want to use an existing test, the first thing to do is to generate the test. If the test that is generated is what you want to use, then you can print the test. You can also print its answer key and answer sheets as needed. If the generated test is not what you want to use, close the generated document window without saving it. Then, edit the test properties to change your test.
•After administering the test to the learners, you can enter their question responses into VISION, which supplies the data for question statistics.
Test Unit Types
Listed below are the four types of test units. A test can cover as many units as you like, but the units must all be of the same type.
•Program organizers: The test units are programs that are not training units themselves (meaning they don’t contain objectives), but contain training units as subordinates.
•Programs training units: The test units are program training units (programs containing objectives).
•Objectives: The test units are learning objectives.
•Questions: The test units are the actual questions themselves, rather than higher-order objects (programs or objectives) containing questions.
Name the test carefully. Eventually there could be quite a few tests in the Test Title list, including those created by other VISION users. Think about how to name the tests so that you can easily differentiate your tests from others. Careful naming of tests may help you to prevent proliferation of tests that are largely redundant.
By default, tests in the list are sorted by title, but you may sort the display according to any other column by simply clicking on the column header.
Using Questions as the Test Unit Type
How to Find Groups of Questions
1.Select Search and then Search from the Main Menu to collect objectives or questions for use on the test.
2.Click the Questions and Tests menu item, highlight your selection and click the Run button.
3.Using the search entitled "Questions" as an example, choose the criteria that you would like to search for.
4.The search operation will display the results in a window having the title of the search. You can stretch this window, if necessary, to show more at a glance.
5.You can drag the items from the search window onto the Test Units menu item of the Test Properties window.
Building the Test
Before the test can be generated, you must first build the test. Once the test is built, you can generate the test as many times as you like. When VISION builds a test, it randomizes the positions of the choices for each Multiple Choice question on the test. If you do not like the results, after generating the test and reviewing the randomization of the choices, you can rebuild the test and get a different randomization.
Take care that the printed answer key corresponds to the printed test. Do not perform a rebuild between the printing of the test and answer key. If you rebuild one, rebuild the other.
Generate Test Documents
After you build the test, click the OK button. To generate the test, click the Generate button on the test list window. From the pull-down menu, select one of the following types of documents:
•Test: Generate the test document. This is the student-presentable form of the selected test.
•Student Answer Sheet: Generate an answer sheet for the selected test. This isn’t needed if the student will enter responses directly on the test document.
•Answer Key: Generate an answer key (grading key) for the selected test, which shows the correct answer to each question.
•Answers Only: Generate an answer key for the selected test that shows the answers only, without the questions.
•Specifications: Generate a document (“Test Specification”) that describes the selected test.
Once one of these test documents has been generated, you can print it immediately, save it to a file for later use, or just view it and close it.
