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AccelTest
User Manual
Item (Question) Types
When you create assignments in AccelTest, you can choose from the item types
listed below. You choose the number of items to include from each type and the
point values. The item types that are available for a specific assignment depend on
how you have chosen to present the assignment to students and score the
assignment.
Assisted Response Item Types
• Multiple Choice (MC)
• Matching (M)
• Ranking (R)
• True/False (TF)
• Yes/No (YN)
Free-Response Item Types
• Essay (E)
• Short Answer (SA)
• Numeric Response (NR)
Creating Assignments in AccelTest
In AccelTest, you can create assignments with different types of items. For
example, an assignment may include both multiple-choice items and true/false
items, and it may include both assisted-response and free-response item types.
When you create your assignment, you specify the item types, decide how many
items to add and enter the number of points students can earn for each item.
The available item types depend on the method you choose for presenting and
scoring the items. If you choose to present items with the Responder or NEO 2, the
available item types are limited to multiple-choice, true/false, yes/no, numeric-
response or short-answer. If you choose to present items on a NEO 2, short answer
is available in addition to these item types. If you choose a printed assignment
with any scoring method, all item types are available; however, if you use the
Responder or NEO 2 as the scoring method, students may need to answer some
items on paper for manual scoring (such as essay items).
If you are planning to align items on your assignments to standards,
it
is helpful to add the standards first so you can align items to standards as you
create assignments.
Follow these steps to create a new assignment:
1.
In AccelTest, click the
Assignments
tab
A
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Score keys and
points-only
assignments.
On the
Assignments tab, you can also
create score keys for scoring
assignments that exist outside
AccelTest; see page 46. In the
Record Book, you can create
points-only assignments when
you add assignments to the
Record Book; see page 71.
