BP5_2009102_Web 2.0_EastTestMaker

Every teacher knows that over half of the time spent testing is spent creating it and grading it! Valuable time that could be used more wisely through re-teaching missed concepts and moving on info future lessons. This time constraint that I mention is of great concern to me personally. After testing 100+ students, it may take days to get back their results. By that time, the students have put aside the tested content and moved forward... oftentimes moving forward without the mastery that they need.  Dreamingly we teachers in this predicament think to ourselves, If only I could give a high-level questioning test AND have it graded over night?!; And thus, EasyTestMaker is created!
I don't mean to sound like a commercial, but I do want educators to notice the great value and ease that the program can add to their classroom learning environments. By giving students immediate feedback, teachers can re-teach content more efficiently. Furthermore, the program allows for varied tests to be created based on the same content. This is helpful for student's who are absent test day or who are needing to recover a low test grade (as standards-based instruction now requires).
The downfall to this program is that in order for it to be graded electronically, it must be taken by the students on the computer; which, in many k-12 classrooms including mine, is not the norm. However, the option to transfer your created tests to Word (the common word processor of public schools) is appealing.
As for my classroom, I plan to create my grammar and vocabulary exams within this program, print and administer them to students within the units of study, then combine them using the exam creator tool. Therefore, I will have all of my tests, pretests, and exams created, loaded, and ready to go. I further plan to use the program to help vary my assessments in an effort to prevent memorization of questions and promote student mastery.

This is an example of the way the screen would look in creating a multiple choice test:

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(EasyTestMaker, 2009)