Assessing Your Mastery of Each Topic:

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.

NOTE: Because an adaptive tutoring system is designed to adjust to, and to expand upon, your personal learning skills, you may eventually find yourself working only at the highest tutorial service levels, but wanting to check yourself with questions from a lower skill level. Assess may serve this purpose as well. If your instructor has selected to use our bonus point system, you may also find a "Bonus Quiz" selection on the User Mode menu. Bonus Quizes make certain that you get every type of question on every tutoring segment possible at all levels..

You may thus use the Asess mode also to make sure you have an opportunity to practice questions at a level that may be lower than the Tutor levels you experienced on a given topic. Assess is selected from the User Mode pop-up menu, which is illustrated below:

Immediately upon selection of the Assess mode, you will see a panel in the upper left of your screen which indicates that you may create a "Formula to use in Assess" for making up you own quiz. Clicking on the type of question makes that question type active/inactive for your quiz. An active type is indicated by an "X" in the status box at the left of each label. Likewise, you may select how many questions of each active question type you wish to have in your quiz. This is done by selecting the number associated with each question type, then retyping the desired number. There is a default that always resets to the size and composition of quiz your instructor had in mind for Assess services, but you can reset the quiz parameters as much as you like:

After selecting the quiz composition you want, clicking on the "Start Quiz" button will initiate the desired Assessment Quiz for the current topic.

NOTE1: Assess is always topic specific--iff you want testing on all topics within a given chapter within a single test, you must use "Certification" as your testing vehicle.

NOTE2: If you have selected Bonus Quiz (if your instructor has made such Quizzes available) then the system will compose your self-quiz test automatically based on the number of tutoring segments and all types of questions.

When your quiz starts, you will experience the same types of items and services found in Tutor mode. Thus a Multiple Choice question may offer you several alternative answers from which you need to select one by clicking on the best answer to make it actively selected. When done, indicate that you are ready to move on to the next question by clicking on the "Done" button:

As with Tutoring services, all questions in Assess are adaptively selected. This means there is some proportion of questions selected to assure that you receive questions most in need of review or ones not yet answered. Also, those types of questions requiring that you type in some answer will respond after the second letter is typed by showing you all possible anwers 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 each Assess quiz will result in 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. Merely click on the field of each type of question to expand that field, as illustrated below:

The above illustration also shows the curosor becoming an "X" over an expanded field, indicating that another click anywhere in this field will return it to its normal size. Your overall scores for accuracy (percent of possible answers correct) and fluency (percent of total time used from the alloted or expected time) are given at the bottom of the feedback field. You may take Assessment quizes as many times as you like, and using whatever proportion of questions types you like. However, try to avoid relying on Assess as a tutor--that is what the tutorial mode is for.

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