Certification Testing on a Full Chapter:

As noted in the Assess section, each topic should first be studied using the Adaptive Tutoring mode until you have reached the highest levels of tutor services and have reviewed the entire topic at this highest level. Then, if you wish to try a practice quiz on this topic, you may create you own quiz by using the Assess services. However, Assess is always topic specific--if you want testing on all topics within a given chapter within a single test, you must use "Certification" as your testing vehicle.

Certification mode serves the purpose that in-class testing typically serves: it covers a broad range of topics (here a whole chapter) and uses a fixed test configuration as to the number and types of questions, as well as placing reasonable limits on the amount of time you can spend answering any given question. Depending upon your instructor, you may be allowed a limited number of attempts in this mode for any given chapter. Other instructors may allow as many attempts as you like, but place a deadline on the final submission of your best results.

Certification, as with Tutor and Assess services, is selected from the User Mode pop-up menu, which is illustrated below:

Immediately upon selection of the Certification mode, you will be taken to the Certification screen where you will need to identify the chapter over which you plan to test yourself. Opening the "Select a Chapter to Certify" pop-up menu will bring you a list of all chapters in your electronic book. At the top of this menu is information confirming who you are, and which school, instructor, course, and section for which you are registered.

IMPORTANT: If any of this information is incorrect, including your course section, your scores may not be reported to your instructor! to correct any misinformation, send an e-mail to info@psych-ai.com informing us of the error and the correct information that should appear in this field.

Note also that each chapter has a corresponding date for which it times out (Time outs are ALWAYS at 12:00 midnight, Eastern Time, of the date given. Clicking on the desired chapter heading makes that chapter the active selection for testing and progress certification:

If your instructor has selected our optional service of allowing only limited "diagnostic" testing opportunities to reach a given level of mastery accomplishment prior to requiring you to tutor on a chapter, you will see a statement to this effect immediately after selecting that chapter for certification. This message will give you the specific rules the instructor has selected, including the number of diagnostic opportunities and level of achievement prior to being required to tutor on those topics diagnosed in need of further study:



Following the above message, if applicable, a loading message will appear informing you that the system is constructing a test. Each test is uniquely created and adaptively customized especially for you based on your testing and tutoring history:



When this process is complete, a "start" field immediately appears that allows you to cancel your selection if you have changed your mind or have selected the wrong chapter. Any time you are ready to begin testing, you may also do so by selecting "Start the Quiz" from the "Actions" pop-up menu:



As with Tutoring and Assess/BonusQuiz services, all questions in Certification are familiar in form. However, unlike those alternative services, Certification questions are limited in the amount of time allowed for answering each question, and there is a small count-down clock in the upper-right corner to indicate the remaining number of seconds for each question before you will be required to move to the next question:



There is still the familiar service involving those types of questions which require that you type in some answer. As usual, they will respond after the second letter is typed by showing you all possible answers which include the letter sequence you have typed. You may click on any one of these to place it into the answer field. Completed correct answers, whether typed or click-moved will become bold when placed in the answer blank:

Completing and using the "SUBMIT" button to report each Certification test, the system will first post your results to our web server for permanent storage and eventual reporting to your instructor, then will present a detailed feedback report on your performance. There is separate feedback on each question type to help you determine which type you need to practice more. Because some computers cause the small scrolling feedback fields to scroll too quickly to easily read them, we have made each field expandable, as indicated by the "magnifying glass" cursor change when the cursor is moved over each field, as illustrated below:

At any time, you may check what the server has for your highest test score or your complete testing history for a given chapter by selecting these options from the Actions menu:

As noted, scores report only the highest score achieved for each chapter. However, if your instructor has selected to apply our Bonus Point system for Tutoring and/or Self Quizzing, then you will also see scores for Bonus points and how the application of the larger of the two scores applied when added to the Certification test scores (Final Score):

Tthe Start menu illustration above also shows that if your instructor uses the system to record and report extra assignment grades or scores, a menu item also appears that allows you to view those assignment scores (use the "My Assignments" selection).

 

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