Break Out Plus 1.10

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Knowledge and Judgment Scoring trains students to learn and report what they know using higher levels of thinking. Break out of the old habit of only counting the right marks on multiple-choice tests. Promote quantity and quality. A score and question difficulty matrix provides detailed information for student counseling. A tally analysis labels questions as Expected, Student Discriminating, Guessing, and Misconception. Answer sheets are checked for independent marking (cheating). Break Out Plus turns passive pupils into active self-correcting learners. Student development is promoted. Students acquire the sense of responsibility needed to learn at higher levels of thinking. Their quality score tells them and the teacher what they can trust as a basis for further learning and instruction. Individual students and/or teachers can elect either traditional right-mark scoring or Knowledge and Judgment Scoring. This makes for a low stress transition from one scoring method to the other. Students overwhelmingly prefer Knowledge and Judgment Scoring after some experience and when judgment is given an honest value. A suggested value for omit (the good judgment to not mark a wrong answer) is calculated for each test. See www.nine-patch.com for fully described printouts for Break Out Plus (a student view of the test) and Power Up Plus (a teacher/test maker view of the test).

VERSION HISTORY

  • Version 1.10 posted on 2007-10-18
    Improved Student Discrimination Ability

Program Details

EULA

License: Freeware. Warranty: All software is the result of classroom experience, research and consulting. It is currently supported on Windows with Excel installed. It is distributed on an “as is” basis. As no warranty that it will run correctly on other computers can be made, please run Break Out Plus with one of the supplied answer sheet files (.ANS) to verify results. No warranty can be made as to the use of the software since it can be applied in many classroom situations with several sets of test instructions and scoring methods.