The Classroom Kit: Scantron. (Hardware).www.scantron.com, $120 per year; Classroom Kit (30 Palm handhelds preloaded with Classroom Wizard Instructional help in an application or system development environment that guides the user through a series of multiple choice questions to accomplish a task. For the most part, wizards are more effective than the help menus found in most applications, which often border on the atrocious. scanner (1) See also antivirus program.(2) An optical device that reads a printed page or transparency and converts it into a graphics image for the computer. The scanner does not recognize or differentiate in any manner the content of the material it is scanning. ), about $4,000; scanner only, $600 With Classroom Wizard, students who access tests and quizzes via a handheld computing computing - computer device can beam their responses wirelessly to Scantron's Quiz A quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which the players (as individuals or in teams) attempt to answer questions correctly. Quizzes are also brief assessments used in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and/or skills. Wizard application. Answers and scores appear immediately on the teacher's desktop computer. Combining online and classroom-based tools, this assessment system includes: a Web-based assessment portal offering assistance in integrating the system into the curriculum, collaboration with other teachers and information on issues related to testing. Besides scoring traditional "objective" test questions, the system allows educators to score short answer, essay and fill-in-the-blank answers. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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