Designed for the teacher in a hurry and the student with a test to take! CompuTest is the first of our new ProTech (Professional-Technical) software packages. CompuTest offers nearly instant test design with its W98 configuration and direct correlation with the new standards. CompuTest supports locally written questions, but also offers thousands of professionally written items-each tied to a specific competency or performance indicator.
Designing a test is as easy as clicking on the desired competencies and selecting the number of questions needed. Once created, a test may be printed or saved to disk for future use by individual students. Students taking a test on-line may view their results, including the "descriptive" keys for each answer. Individual test scores are recorded and saved for reference by the instructor.
CompuTest is fast, easy, and saves you time and hassle:
• Print for the class OR • Let students take the test online.
Key features:
• Purchase only the question disks you want • Preview and select individual questions if you want • Prints both descriptive keys and traditional answer keys • Enter your own questions, or license ours • Saves student scores when testing online • Easy to update with additional questions • Matches competencies from 2000 National Standards • Matches competencies for DECA competitive events • Supports many FBLA and PBA events
Additional information follows:
Ordering
Order CompuTest (Version
1.2)
(PC WIN95 or better) Add your own questions OR save your time for teaching and
add our question disks sold individually.
Order ProTech CompuTest
1.2.....CT-00-001-W...$159.00 (Member: $139.00)
CompuTest Questions (CDs)
Requires one copy of ProTech CompuTest
program (above). Add as many question disks (core
and/or
specialized) as you like.
Core questions: Each disk contains at least 200 items from the core competencies of National Standards.
Business Administration** CT-BA-001-W…$22.95 (Member: $19.00) CT-BA-002-W…$22.95 (Member: $19.00)Additional question modules
are added regularly. Watch this site for announcements of additional
availability.
**Part of the Business, Management, and Entrepreneurship foundation in the
2000 National Curriculum Standards.
Additional question modules are being added frequently. Watch this site for
announcements of additional availability.
ProTech: MarkED's ProTech software series includes several different programs and data packages. The ProTech Career Planner is a competency or performance indicator data base designed for the instructor. It provides a wide range of reports, including training plans, individual assignments, group assignments, instructional objectives, www links, and more. Career Planner is particularly useful for instructors with co-op programs and for DECA advisors with students interested in many different competitive events. The program provides a quick and easy tool for identifying the most important (core) performance expectations for any given classroom as well as for individual students within the class.
ProTech CompuTest is a custom test authoring package that is designed
to correlate directly with the National Marketing Education Standards and with
the performance indicators (competencies) used by MarkED and DECA for curriculum
and competitive events. CompuTest allows the instructor to quickly
create printed tests and quizzes and to save the specifications for each test or
quiz for future use.
Question Modules are available at minimal cost. Each question is tied to a
specific competency, making test design fast and easy. Although you may use
CompuTest to write individual questions for each competency, we strongly
recommend the use of the question modules to save time and to ensure full
coverage of each performance indicator.
CompuTest includes a sister program (COLT) that allows student
on-line testing. COLT gives your students direct access to portions of
CompuTest so that they can take an exam "on-line." COLT allows the student to
take a test or quiz that you have previously created and saved or students may
create their own tests.
NOTE: CompuTest, COLT, and Career Planner work from the same
list of performance indicators (competencies). This is the same list used by
MarkED for curriculum design and by National DECA for competitive events. Exams
used in national DECA events, as well as in most state events, are based on this
list. Performance indicators are updated each year.
Free upgrades, service notices and patches. Be sure to register
your purchase. You may do so on-line at
www.mark-ed.org or by printing the
registration form. (See registration icon on opening screen.)
To begin using simply double click on either CompuTest
or COLT. We recommend that you begin with CompuTest so that
you will have a basic understanding of the way both programs are organized.
COLT operates in the same manner as the computer option on CompuTest.
(See item #3 in the Quick Start instructions for CompuTest.
Need help? Your purchase of ProTech CompuTest includes
free on-line support for one full year and 15 minutes of telephone support. For
on-line support, go to www.mark-ed.org: 1) select product, 2) select ProTech
and then CompuTest.
Copyright. ProTech CompuTest, question
modules, and related data, code, and structures are proprietary, copyrighted
materials of the Marketing Education Resource Center. Duplication of software or
of printed or saved reports is prohibited except as noted below:
QUICK START
The following Quick Start instructions are for creating tests after questions have been added to the system. Questions may be written and added manually, or MarkED question modules may be installed. Question modules may be purchased individually and are self-installing. To enter questions manually, please go to "questions" in the ProTech "help" file.
1. Open the CompuTest screen by double clicking the appropriate icon on the welcome screen.
NOTE: The CompuTest screen is blank, except for a series of icons on the menu bar (across the top, immediately below the "File, Edit, Help" listings).
2. Open the Create Test screen using the icon on the left side of the menu bar.
3. Complete the selection criteria as follows:
4. If you selected computer, skip to step 10.
If you chose teacher, scroll through the list of competencies (performance indicators) on the master competency list and click on as many as you wish to include for this test.
NOTE: As you select competencies, the total number of available questions is identified in the box at the bottom left of your screen. The more competencies you select, the more questions you will have available. (The number of questions available for each competency is determined by the number of questions you have written and added to CompuTest and/or by the number of question modules you have installed.)
5. After selecting the competencies you wish to test, go to the questions box (bottom left) and use the up and down arrows to set the number of questions you want included on this test.
6. On the right side of your screen, double click on create to assemble the first draft of your test. CompuTest will generate your test and then move to the edit screen.
7. The edit screen identifies each question selected and
provides the first few lines of text for each question. (To see the entire
question, simply double click anywhere within the question box.)
8. When you are ready to print your test, select the printer icon at the top of the page to move to the Setup Test page. You may, at your option, change the title, beginning question number, and beginning page number.
To preview, select the portion of the test you wish to preview by selecting the component and then clicking Preview. . (NOTE: You can only preview one component at a time-i.e., test, key, or guide.)
When you are satisfied with your test, select All of the Above and then click on print.
9. As you exit from this test, CompuTest will prompt you to save your work. To save your test, assign it a name and click save. The program will save your test and return you to the Create Test page.
10. If you select computer, the software will select blocks of competencies from which to randomly select questions. For the computer to know which competencies to select, you must answer two additional questions:
11. Skill Level. All Performance Indicators (competencies) are assigned to one of five curriculum planning levels (skill levels). Select the level that corresponds with your curriculum. For more detailed information on skill levels, go to CompuTest's help section. (For complete information, visit MarkED's web site at www.mark-ed.org.)
12. Scope. Select inclusive if you want CompuTest to include all levels of competencies up to and including the one you selected above. (Example: You selected specialist. By setting scope to inclusive, CompuTest will include competencies from both the pre-requisite and career-sustaining levels along with competencies from the specialist level that you selected.)
Select exclusive if you want CompuTest to use competencies only from the level you selected.
13. Select any combination of instructional areas (e.g., BA: Business Administration, CO: Communications, DS: Distribution, etc.) AND/OR major topics (e.g., 100: Business Fundamentals, 200 Technological Tools, etc.). You may mix and match instructional areas and major topics as appropriate for the test.
14. After you have clicked on your choice of instructional areas and major topics, and you are ready to create your test, click the select box on the right. CompuTest will create a new competency list based on your selections.
NOTE: The total number of available questions is identified in the box at the bottom left of your screen. The more competencies selected, the more questions you will have available. (The number of questions available for each competency is determined by the number of questions you have written and added to CompuTest and/or by the number of question modules you have installed.)
15. If CompuTest selected any competencies that you do not wish to include, you may de-select them by clicking on their respective check marks.
16. In the questions box, use the arrow buttons to set the number of questions you want to appear on this test.
17. On the right side of your screen, double click on create to assemble the first draft of your test. CompuTest will generate your test and then move to the edit screen.
18. The edit screen identifies each question selected and
provides the first few lines of text for each question. (To see the entire
question, simply double click anywhere within the question box.)
19. When you are ready to print your test, select the printer icon at the top of the page to move to the Setup Test page. You may, at your option, change the title, beginning question number, and beginning page number.
To preview, select the portion of the test you wish to preview by selecting the component and then clicking Preview. . (NOTE: You can only preview one component at a time-i.e., test, key, or guide.)
When you are satisfied with your test, select All of the Above and then click on print.
20. As you exit from this test, CompuTest will prompt you to save your work. To save your test, assign it a name and click save. The program will save your test and return you to the Create Test page.
For additional details on the ProTech series and on ProTech CompuTest, open the Overview document from the welcome page or from most screens throughout CompuTest. For help with specific terminology or functions, click on the help icon available from most pages throughout CompuTest.
Need help? Your purchase of ProTech CompuTest includes free on-line support for one full year and 15 minutes of telephone support. For on-line support, go to www.mark-ed.org: 1) select product, 2) select ProTech and then CompuTest.
Copyright. ProTech CompuTest, question modules, and related data, code, and structures are proprietary, copyrighted materials of the Marketing Education Resource Center. Duplication of software or of printed or saved reports is prohibited except as noted below:
© 2001, Marketing Education Resource Center, Columbus, Ohio 43212
OVERVIEW
ProTech CompuTest
Version: beta
Release date: December, 2000
©2000, Marketing Education Resource Center
Columbus, Ohio USA
What it does
ProTech CompuTest is a custom test-authoring package that is designed to correlate directly with the National Marketing Education Standards and with the performance indicators (competencies) used by MarkED and DECA for curriculum and competitive events. CompuTest allows the instructor to quickly create printed tests and quizzes and to save the specifications for each test or quiz for future use.
CompuTest differs from other readily available test-authoring packages in several significant ways:
How it works
Tests are designed by first selecting performance indicators (competencies) that represent the content to be tested. Competencies may be selected manually by the instructor or automatically by the computer. Once the competencies have been determined, and the number of items requested, CompuTest uses various formulas to determine which questions are to be used in a given test. (Items are selected using a randomization process.) In addition to the random selection of items (and, on occasion, competencies), CompuTest randomly positions the alternatives so that the correct answer to a given item may appear in a different position each time the test is printed. (In effect, for the same question, the answer may be A on one test and C on the next.)
Paper v. computer
CompuTest allows the instructor to create tests, print hard copies, and save to disk. Tests that are save to disk may be recalled within CompuTest at a later date and then printed, or the test may be recalled by name from COLT, the student on-line testing option (CompuTest On -Line Testing). When tests are taken on-line, scores are saved on the basis of the student's final response prior to the review process. Scores are hidden and are accessible to the instructor only.
National Curriculum Standards and Performance Indicators (Competencies)
Since all questions in CompuTest are based on individual performance indicators (competencies), understanding the competency data base makes test design easy and straightforward. For beta version of CompuTest competencies are organized by instructional area and planning levels. (Future versions will allow testing by industry, as well-e.g., a selling test for restaurant management or a distribution test for hospitality/tourism).
Instructional Areas. MarkED's instructional areas are correlated directly with the National Marketing Education Standards 2000. (Most match one-to-one.) The standards and corresponding instructional area are:
| Standard | Code | Instructional Area |
| . | . | . |
| Foundations | ||
| Business, Management, Entrepreneurship | ||
| BA | Business Administration | |
| MN | Management | |
| Communications/Interpersonal | ||
| CO | Communications | |
| IS | Interpersonal Skills | |
| . | ||
| Economics Foundations | EC | Economics |
| . | ||
| Professional Development | PD | Professional Development |
| . | ||
| Functions | ||
| Distribution | DS | Distribution |
| Financing | FI | Financing |
| Information Management | IM | Information Management |
| Pricing | PI | Pricing |
| Product/Service Management | PM | Product/Service Management |
| Promotion | PR | Promotion |
| Selling | SE | Selling |
| . | ||
Within each instructional area, competencies are clustered by major topic. CompuTest allows the selection of individual performance indicators (competencies), major topics, or instructional areas.
Planing Levels. Competencies (performance indicators) and other elements of the MarkED "system" are based on a series of planning levels that are loosely correlated with levels of employment responsibility. Competencies are assigned to levels based on when the specific knowledge or skill first becomes applicable. Competencies that are typically required for a "beginning" position for a new employee are labeled "pre-requisite." Higher levels are based on a progressive, step-wise increase in responsibilities as is typical in most companies.
|
Prerequisite (PQ) |
The content of the curriculum at the prerequisite level is
focused on the development of employability and job-survival
skills and concepts, including work ethics, personal appearance, and
general business behavior. In most circumstances, these skills and
concepts have been previously acquired through life experiences or in
earlier courses/grade levels. Performance indicators at the prerequisite
level should not be used as the sole basis for course design in marketing;
however, instructors should verify that students possess these
prerequisite skills essential for success in marketing.
|
|
Career-Sustaining (CS) |
The starting point for
course design in marketing should be the performance indicators at the
career-sustaining level. A curriculum at this level develops skills and
knowledge needed for continued employment in or study of marketing based
on the application of basic academics and marketing skills. Instruction at
the career-sustaining level should provide students with a fundamental
understanding of marketing principles and experience in making routine
business decisions.
|
|
Specialist (SP) |
A
specialist-level marketing curriculum provides in-depth, solid
understanding and skill development in all marketing functions. Students
who complete courses at the marketing-specialist level should be prepared
to make complex business decisions, exhibit leadership skills, and apply
their mastery of marketing skills across functions or within one function.
|
|
Supervisor (SU) |
A
supervisory level curriculum provides the same in-depth, solid
understanding and skill development in all marketing functions as in the
marketing-specialist curriculum, and in addition, incorporates content
that addresses the supervision of people. As a result of instruction at
the supervisory level, students should be prepared to plan, coordinate,
and supervise marketing staff.
|
|
Manager/ Entrepreneur (ME) |
A
manager/entrepreneur level curriculum should develop strategic
decision-making skills in all marketing functions and foundations needed
to own/manage a business or department within an organization. Individuals
receiving instruction at this level should be capable of assuming full
responsibility for the success or failure of a unit within an organization
or of a small business enterprise.
|
Copyright.
ProTech CompuTest, question
modules, and related data, code, and structures are proprietary, copyrighted
materials of the Marketing Education Resource Center. Duplication of software or
of printed or saved reports is prohibited except as noted below:
©2001, Marketing Education Resource Center, Columbus, Ohio 43212
Career Planner
Competency data base includes core and specialized performance indicators and support materials. This program generates many different reports, including instructional objectives, training plans, specialized lists for individual students, www links, assignment lists, etc.
COLT
CompuTest On-Line Testing program. COLT is included as a module within the CompuTest package. COLT allows students to take a previously saved test at a computer work station or to design their own practice tests on the fly. When set up to require students to log in, COLT captures student scores in a hidden file that instructors may access as desired. (NOTE: a future verion of CompuTest will link student scores directly to a the student record in ProTech Career Planner.
Competency
Statement of expected performance (concept or skill) used to define the National Standards and MarkED curricula, DECA competitive events, etc. Used synonymously with "performance indicator." Competency lists are developed for many different industries and career clusters relative to marketing. Also, see "Planning Level."
Computer
(Relative to creating a new test.) Select computer if you do not want to select individual competencies for the test. This option saves time when preparing larger exams that will cover an entire major topic, instructional area, or combinations of instructional areas. To use this option, you must also 1) select the (maximum) skill level to be included and 2) the scope of the test (inclusive to include the selected level and lower levels, or exclusive to include only the selected level). After selecting skill level and scope, 3) click "select." CompuTest's master competency will display only those competencies that meet your criteria. Before proceeding, you may 4) de-select individual competencies by clicking on the corresponding check marks. (NOTE: a future version of CompuTest will allow you to select the specific industry for which the test is being designed-e.g., apparel and accessories, retail management, industrial selling, etc.)
-CompuTest Question Modules
Data modules include 200 test items and corresponding descriptive answer keys (with source documentation). Questions modules are available individually from MarkED.
Editing
Editing Questions
Questions provided by MarkED cannot be changed.
To edit a question you've entered, click the up arrow.To edit a test by adding and deleting questions, you must first create the test. CompuTest will automatically take you to the edit page where you can add (+), delete (-), or exchange (-><-) items.
Exclusive
(Relative to scope when designing tests.) Includes only competencies from the skill level selected. See "inclusive" for alternative design strategy.
Inclusive
(Relative to scope when designing tests.) Includes all levels of competencies up to and including the skill level selected . (Example: If specialist level is selected, and scope is set for inclusive, CompuTest will include competencies from both the pre-requisite and career-sustaining levels along with competencies from the specialist level.)
Instructional Area
Similar to units of instruction. MarkED uses 13 broad instructional areas (divided between Foundations and Functions) to address the various components of the National Marketing Education Standards:
| . | Foundations | |
| BA | Business Administration | |
| CO | Communications | |
| EC | Economics | |
| MN | Management | |
| PD | Professional Development | |
| IS | Interpersonal Skills | |
| Functions | ||
| DS | Distribution | |
| FI | Financing | |
| IM | Information Management | |
| PI | Pricing | |
| PM | Product/Service Management | |
| PR | Promotion | |
| SE | Selling | |
Major Topic
Subset of an instructional area. Each major topic represents a cluster of related performance indicators. CompuTest allows the selection of individual competencies or of major topics within and instructional area.
Performance Indicator
Used synonymously with competency.
Planning Level
Competencies (performance indicators) and other elements of the MarkED "system" are based on a series of planning levels that are loosely correlated with levels of employment responsibility. Competencies are assigned to levels based on when the specific knowledge or skill first becomes applicable. Competencies that are typically required for a "beginning" position for a new employee are labeled "pre-requisite." Higher levels are based on a progressive, step-wise increase in responsibilities as is typical in most companies. The five levels are:
For additional details on MarkED's curriculum planning levels, visit the CompuTest "overview" page or go to www.mark-ed.org.
ProTech
(Professional-Technical) Software series designed to support business and marketing programs that are based on the National Curriculum Standards for Marketing Educucation. Individual software packages within the ProTech series include:
- Career Planner: competency data base includes core and specialized performance indicators and support materials. This program generates many different reports, including instructional objectives, training plans, specialized lists for individual students, www links, assignment lists, etc.
- CompuTest: test authoring and design software
- CompuTest Question Modules: data modules that include 200 test items and corresponding descriptive answer keys (with source documentation). Question modules are available individually from MarkED.
Question Modules
Data modules that include 200 test items and corresponding descriptive answer keys (with source documentation). Question modules are available individually from MarkED.
Questions, Adding
To write your own question for a competency:
1) Select the "Question Master List" from the file menu.
2) Enter the competency number to which you want to append a question. Use the two-letter (caps) instructional area designator (e.g., EC or SE).
3) Click on the search icon (magnifying glass) next to the competency window.
4) After CompuTest locates your competency, click the + sign. Caution: Double check that the correct competency number has been located before you click the add (+) button.
5) After you've entered your question, click OK
Questions, Editing
Questions provided by MarkED cannot be changed.
To edit a question you've entered, click the up arrow.
To edit a test by adding and deleting questions, you must first create the test. CompuTest will automatically take you to the edit page where you can add (+), delete (-), or exchange (-><-) items.
Skill Level
See Planning Level.
Teacher
(Relative to creating a new test.) Select teacher if you want to pick individual competencies to be tested. When teacher is selected, CompuTest will display a list of all competencies in the ProTech data base. Simply click on each competency to be included in the test design.
Versions
To create multiple versions of the same test, first create and save and/or print your first version. Then exit print set-up and test edit pages, to the create test page. Your original specifications will remain on the screen. Select "create" and repeat the edit and print processes. You may repeat the process as many times as you wish. (NOTE: 1) Each version will repeat the entire competency and item-selection process. Therefore, while each version will address the same content as specified in the competency selection process, it will do so with a new set of questions. Since questions are selected randomly, there may be some items repeated. The likelihood of repeated questions is in proportion to the number of questions you have installed. 2) Each time a test is created, the position of each alternative is randomly assigned. Therefore, even if a question is repeated, the answer alternatives are likely to be in a different order.)