Exam Challenge is a multi-featured application for writing exams and administering them on the same computer or other computers. (Exams can also be printed.)
The project started out when I was teaching Advanced Placement United States History in high school. Instead of wasting a dozen days a year administering tests during class hours, I wrote my tests in a predecessor of this program and administered them to students on their own time at the Mac Lab in the library. When all of my students had finished, I simply went to the computers and read out the results.
Now this is much easier. Exam Challenge has been completely redesigned, a multitude of features have been added, and each examinee’s results, with complete exam data, can be emailed to you.
Features:
GENERAL
• Use a Backdrop. Create a solid-color backdrop behind Exam Challenge to avoid desktop distractions and provide a more pleasing exam environment. Six choices (or no backdrop).
• Get Help. Control-hover over any object (usually buttons) to bring up a tool tip explaining its function. Or click on the Help button at the bottom of every screen to go to the Help Center.
WRITER
• Apply Passwords. To enhance exam security, create passwords for the examinee (person taking the exam). A writer password is required.
• Start with Sample Questions. Twelve sample questions provide an idea of how questions can be written (and provide a sample exam you can take before you write your own).
• Write Unlimited Questions. Write as many questions as you like (except that, if the exam is to be taken in manual order, it’s limited to 200 questions).
• Use Categories. For organizational purposes, label each question as belonging to a certain category that you determine.
• Choose Answering Sequence. Choose one of three different question-answering sequences: sequential, random, or manual.
• Scramble Answers. Set up your exam so that each examinee will see the five available answers randomly attached to different letters (ABCDE), while the correct answer remains the same.
• Reorder Questions. Adjust the order in which questions are presented (useful only if the exam is to be taken in sequential order).
• Import Images. Enhance questions with easily imported images, which can then be resized, cropped, and moved.
• Import Sounds and Movies. Add sounds and movies to your questions.
• Search Questions. (As the writer) search questions for words.
• Use Multiple Correct Answers. Write questions with a single correct answer or multiple correct answers. Each question is automatically labeled with the number of right answers.
• Exchange Decoys. Set up your exam so that, for each examinee, up to three extra incorrect answers (decoys) are randomly inserted. This increases the uniqueness of each exam-taking experience.
• Time Exams. Create timed exams, with pace-feedback so the examinee always knows if he or she is answering at an acceptable pace. There is even an (optional) time reminder on each question.
• Offer Immediate Feedback. Allow the examinee to be informed in real time:
A. if the chosen answer is correct.
B. what the right answer was (immediately after missing it).
C. with an explanation of the correct answer.
D. with the running % correct (changed after each question is answered).
You choose which of these feedbacks, if any, are available to the examinee.
• View Statistical Evaluation. This provides three types of statistical analysis of the performance of all examinees on a particular exam.
• View Records. See complete records of each examinee’s score, including the answer the examinee chose for each question.
• Select Grading Method. Scores and grades, either letter or pass/fail, are calculated for you.
• Print. Everything can be printed. You can even print the exam and administer it on paper.
• Email Results. Have each examinee’s results emailed to your home or office.
EXAMINEE
• Use a Process of Elimination. Click the gray vertical bar at the right of each answer choice to use a “process of elimination.” This dims answers already rejected and helps to narrow down the ones still being considered.
• Select an Answer. Select an answer either by clicking on the letter, clicking on the answer, or typing the letter of the answer (then hitting the Confirm Answer button).
• Reconsider Answers. (If you have NOT been allowed immediate feedback), go back to troublesome questions and reconsider answers (time permitting on timed exams).
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