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Any falsification of information was labeled cheating. Answer sheets that failed the test for independent marking received a score of zero. Students wanting to protest to the Student Disciplinary Committee were offered assistance. Not one student protested. Cheating complaints by classmates dropped to near zero. Students named the software The Cheat Checker.
The Cheat Checker examines similar pairs of answer sheets for independent marking. Any pair that fails the test is labeled presumptive cheating. The Cheat Checker then examines the uniqueness of this pair with respect to the entire class. A significant finding for uniqueness and for presumptive cheating is labeled confirmed. Cheating has always been a problem with multiple choice tests. The Cheat Checker helped honest students relax knowing they did not have to compete with those who did cheat.
The original Cheat Checker examined one version of a test at a time. There was little need for multiple version tests when using the Cheat Checker in classes of 120 students. There was one exception: When a student was reported to the Student Disciplinary Committee for cheating, only one member fully understood the significance of the results. The committee quickly discovered that the lower the grade, the easier to detect cheating. This was considered unfair. Faculty are more familiar with and accepting of multiple version test results.
Students have learned to breach the expected security given by multiple version tests. The current Cheat Checker examines all versions of a test as marked.
The structure for each answer file is: nine character ID:one space:answer string. The answer key ID is 999000111. Student records follow the answer key.
A Rule of Thumb for Cheating is five to seven consecutive identical pairs of wrong answers distributed in a string of paired right answers.
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Practice inquiry learning and metacognitive skills. Knowledge and Judgment. Write, review, game and test at five levels of thinking. Instructions and sample data are built in. Students author report/review test bank files. Score as alternative assessments. Convert to remedial exercises and class tests. The three tutor modes stress recall, levels of thinking, and the sense of responsibility needed to learn at all levels of thinking.
The question editor prompts for a seven part paragraph: (1) a descriptive question stem, (2-3) acceptable labels or answers and (4-7) related labels and answers that are not acceptable or within desired limits. Only parts (1) and (2) are required. These seven parts are then recombined into dozens of different questions.
When writing, students need to determine what is like and unlike, what is within and outside of acceptable limits, what is related and what is not related to the question stem. This is applied critical reading and thinking. They practice inquiry learning and metacognitive skills. Large type makes the program usable for the visually handicapped and for group activities.
A fully developed question returns at five levels of thinking or questioning. The five levels of thinking are: (1) Student, responds to a question stem without seeing any answers. (2) Scholar, responds to a question stem that must be visualized. (3) Scientist, selects wrong answers until only one is left. (4) Pupil, selects the traditional right answer. (5) Tourist, gambles that random chance will select an acceptable answer.
True Study Skills, True Test Writer, and True Score (scores class tests traditionally and for knowledge and judgment) make up a student/teacher development system. Passive concrete students experience being self-correcting scholars. They learn how to learn (question, describe, label, classify, relate, verify and apply).
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Beowulf taught, with the unabridged text, dramatic audio readings, images, questions, immediate feedback, and teacher-friendly scoring. This program contains a user-friendly and intuitive navigation with pleasing graphical interfaces and challenging questions on the text. Created, with all the intelligences in mind, for secondary students. Involves three of the five senses in a unique approach to teaching this interesting Anglo-Saxon epic. Created, with all the intelligences in mind, for secondary students.
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Macbeth taught scene by scene, with dramatic audio readings, geography, movies, questions, immediate feedback, and teacher-friendly scoring, with a focus on language devices and Shakespeare's historical sources. This program contains a user-friendly and intuitive navigation with pleasing graphical interfaces and challenging questions on the text. Involves three of the five senses in a unique approach to teaching the darkest of Shakespeare's works. Created, with all the intelligences in mind, for secondary students.
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This applet displays a cool blobs effect.
Over the animation you can also insert an image and a scroll-text.
The applet is interactive and includes a HTML code generator that allows
to change parameters without any knowledge of Java and HTML programming.
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MagicMap is a software for extracting color layers from scanned images - topo maps and logos.
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In DOS it was very easy to print the content of a directory. But unfortunately there is no such function in Windows.
In Windows you can use DirPrinter to print the content of a directory and the directory structure in a comfortable way.
Features (excerpts):
- Print the content of a directory
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- Export into various formats (e.g. Excel, Word, TXT, RTF, ...)
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TimerTime is a timer you can use on your computer so that you don't forget to do those important things that need to be done when you are hard at work (or play) in front of the screen. You can set its alarm to go off in intervals from 1 second up to 24 hours. It is effective and easy to use.
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NotesXP is popular note and task manager for Windows. It is small, flexible and easy to use for everyone with good set of features. NotesXP supports file encryption for privacy. You can create task lists, address books or even databases. NotesXP is perfect solution for home or office use.
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Flash2X EXE Packager is able to package more than one flash movies into a single executable file. The executable file is a flash player itself. When users build the executable files, they can decide whether the watchers of their flash package files are allowed to get the SWF files or not. It a very useful tool for flash authors to distribute and protect their works.
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SiteSpinner is an affordable, user-friendly website development tool. The program includes many advanced features such as drag-and-drop positioning, built in FTP to publish directly to your web site, an image editor and graphics creation all in one. SiteSpinner also includes many advanced features including a spell checker, a meta-tag editor, mouse-over effects and more. SiteSpinner publishes to HTML and SVG and supports all the major browsers.
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