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Presenting answer options to multiple-choice questions during administration of a computerized test

  • US 7,513,775 B2
  • Filed: 10/03/2006
  • Issued: 04/07/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. At a computer system including a display device, a method for presenting a multiple-choice test question including a question prompt and a plurality of answer options, during delivery of a computerized test, the method comprising the computer implemented acts of:

  • accessing a question prompt from a multiple-choice question repository;

    accessing pre-established rules governing the presentation of a maximum number of answer options to be presented along with the question prompt, the pre-established rules governing at least one of;

    the number and ordering of answer options presented with the question prompt;

    the number of additional answer options to be displayed when test-taker input indicating an answer option as correct or incorrect is received; and

    one or more question end conditions indicating when to end a test question based on test-taker input;

    selecting, from the multiple-choice question repository, a plurality of answer options corresponding to the question prompt, at least some of the selected plurality of answer options to be presented as possible answers, at least one or more correct answer options and one or more incorrect answer options, to the question prompt in accordance with the pre-established rules;

    serially presenting a first one of the selected answer options along with the question prompt at the display device in accordance with the pre-established rules;

    receiving test-taker input indicating that the first presented answer option has been selected as a correct answer to the question prompt or an incorrect answer to the question prompt;

    recording the test-taker input indicating that the first presented answer option has been selected as a correct answer to the question prompt or an incorrect answer to the question prompt;

    serially presenting additional answer options from at least some of the selected plurality of answer options until detecting that a question end condition is satisfied in response to receiving test-taker input indicating that the first presented answer option has been selected as a correct answer to the question prompt or an incorrect answer to the question prompt including;

    an act of simultaneously presenting the question prompt along with a next selected answer option at the display device in accordance with the pre-established rules;

    an act of receiving test-taker input indicating that next presented answer option has been selected as a correct answer to the question prompt or an incorrect answer to the question prompt;

    an act of recording the test-taker input indicating that the next answer option has been selected as a correct answer to the question prompt or an incorrect answer to the question prompt;

    subsequent to receiving test-taker input indicating a response to the next presented answer option, an act of detecting that a question end condition has been satisfied; and

    an act of ending the test question in response to detection of the question end condition being satisfied.

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