RalphWilson (8/31/2010)
mtassin (8/31/2010)
RalphWilson (8/30/2010)
To put it mildly, that really screws up trying to do any overall input and analysis of the test results because the input process is a specialized reader for those Mark The Bubble tests. There is a key premarked on the sheet that mtaches the sheet tot he particular set/arrangement of questions that were answered. So, it becomes a bit more awkward to try to snag which questions were skipped on the fly . . . the reader application simply reads the sheets and records the answers as a row in a table for the most part. The essay questions are handled slightly differently but most of the tests (and the majority of all tests) are either T/F or multiple choice (usually 5 options . . . with the odd 4 option question often getting option 5 selected ;-).
Didn't realize these were bubble questions... figured it had more to do with the last classes I taught which had a specialized testing application that worked this way. You got question one, either answered or skipped it, then got question two. All being stored back end as you answered it.
Gosh... I didn't know anybody still used Scantron. 🙂
What does the scanner return on a non-answered question?