Friday, September 30, 2011

Regenerating Values - Seeing new questions on a retest

QUESTION
Is it possible to create a quiz that regenerates new values every time
a student takes a test?  I am presently trying to build basic
arithmetic skills in my students and have set the pass rate at 85%.
Some students have figure out how to just write the questions &
corrections down and then just enter the solution on the next attempt
without actually doing the work.  If it were possible to create
assessments that regenerated every time this problem would be solved.
It would also serve to cover a wider range of practice in the process.

ANSWER
1. Create a quiz with 100 questions.
2. Edit the quiz by clicking on its name in your "See tests" list.
3. Change the length of the quiz from 100 to something shorter (50 or 20 or 10).
 (Don't delete questions -- just enter a new number in the length box
near the top of the page.)
Now then...
The size of the test will now be 50/100 or 20/100 or 10/100.
This means that each times a student tests, a random set of 50, 20 or
10 questions will be chosen out of the 100.
In this way, if a student tests a second time, he/she receives a
different problem set than before.

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