METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER BASED TESTING USING CUSTOMIZABLE TEMPLATES

• US 20110236873A1
• Filed: 10/28/2010
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Clarke Daniel Bowers
• Original Assignee: Clarke Daniel Bowers
• Inventors: BOWERS, Clarke Daniel
• Application Number:
  US12/914,689
• Publication Number:
  US 20110236873A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/362
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3684 for test design, e.g. generating new test cases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/06 with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F

Abstract

A system for computer-based testing includes a test driver that delivers the test to an examinee using a display device and controls progression of the test, a template module that stores presentation format information comprising the presentation format of the test, the presentation format information being accessible to the test driver, and a data module that stores data content information comprising the data content of the test, the data content information being accessible to the test driver, the presentation format information combining with the data content information to create the presentation format and the data content of the test. A method of computer-based testing includes retrieving presentation format information from a template module, the presentation format information dividing the display device into a predetermined number of areas in a predetermined arrangement, retrieving data content information from a data module, and combining the presentation format information and the data content information to create the presentation format and data content of the test.

Claims

1-66. -66. (canceled)

67. A method of testing an examinee using a computer based test comprising:

retrieving a presentation format that determines how test data is arranged;

retrieving test data content for the computer based test that is arranged as specified by the presentation format;

combining the presentation format with the test data content, wherein the test data content is modified based on the specifications of the presentation format to display the at least one computer based test;

delivering the at least one computer based test to the examinee.