Math test is a very important part of the math learning process. However, it is students’ worst nightmare. As a teacher, making an effective math test will be a good way to keep students far away from nightmare in learning math and help students make progress. This article will show you some tips to make effective tests.

Identify the goal of math testing

Generally, math testing is intended to measure students’ math related knowledge, skills or aptitudes. With math testing, teachers can find the weakness from students, evaluate the effect of math learning and teaching, and finally improve students’ learning experience.

Tips for writing a good math test questions

Writing effective questions takes time and practice. Well-designed test provides an accurate measure of students’ math knowledge, here are some strategies and tips to write a good math test questions:

• Keep stems and statements as short as possible and use clear, concise language.
• For multiple choice questions, randomly distribute the correct answer options so that there is not a clear pattern that becomes obvious to the student.
• Make sure that answers are clear to avoid confusion and difficulty grading.

Tools to make math test for computer based test or paper test

Utilizing test tools to make tests is an easy way to help you assessment work more smoothly and simply. In general, math test is administered on paper (paper based test) or on the computer (computer based test).

For paper based test, Microsoft Word would be enough to make math test with its powerful math equation editor. However, formatting the Word math test will be a little fussy, some paper based test tools provide an easy way to create printable math test, such as Math Quiz Creator.

Computer based test which makes use of a computer or an equivalent electronic device to administer testing is more feasible and popular because it is time-saving and money-saving. To make tests for computer based test, there are multiple quiz/test tools to choose from, but for the part of math features supported, QuizCreator will be a good math test tool whether from its powerful feature or ease of use.

Grade math test and analyze test results

Grading the math test is a necessity in the process of assessment work. For paper based test, grading testing papers is really a taxing work. Luckily, for computer base test, many quiz tools can help teachers grade the test automatically and instantly. It is easy to get the complex grading work done.

After grading the test, analyzing test results plays an important role in assessment work. It will let you know more details of this testing and you can do further improvement. Summarizing test papers will cost a lot of time, many teachers even overlook such analysis work. However, the aspect of grading the test is right the advantage of computer based test. All the test results are automatically graded after students taking the test, especially for some free quiz results tracking system supplied by test makers, such as QuizCreator Online for QuizCreator. QuizCreator Online can provide elaborate results analysis by questions, score or students with tables and graphics.

Optimize your testing work and maximize learning effect

The analysis of test results gives you more insightful viewpoint. You can find out the weakness in students, optimize the writing of test questions, teaching methods, teaching contents and make changes, and finally optimize the learning experience and enhance the math knowledge of the students.

As we know, Adobe Flash is a powerful tool to create any Flash movies. Making an interactive Flash quiz is one of the common uses. However, not everyone could afford $699 to possess such a tool, also, not everyone has a good command of Action Script. So, when you want to make a Flash quiz, Adobe Flash may be not always the idea tool. Some 3rd party Flash quiz software could help you create Flash quiz with ease. In this tutorial, I will show you how to make a Flash quiz with QuizCreator.

Step 1. Perpare the questions and answers.

Step 2. Download QuizCreator and install it on your computer.

Step 3. Add questions and answers to quiz.

Open QuizCreator, and click Questions to add the question. QuizCreator supports 9 question types, multiple choice, multiple response, hotspots and other 6 question types. You could pick the right type for you according to your questions.

4. Format the question font.

You could format the question font, such as bold, italic, underline or color. Highlight the text you want to format, and then change it to the format you want.

5. Enrich quiz with multimedia objects.

You could add images, music, Flash movies or your voice to the quiz and enrich the quiz to be more attractive.

6. Set the quiz properties.

You could set the passing score or feedback to each question.

7. Publish quiz to Flash quiz.

Click the publish button, you could publish your quiz to Web page, Word, Excel, LMS, or QuizCreator Online for automatically tracking quiz results. Here, please choose Web page to generate Flash quiz.

Each function in QuizCreator is developed by programmers with an easy-to-use interface, so many functions that you need to use scripts in Adobe Flash is merged into QuizCreator, and then you could use it to make interactive multimedia Flash quiz easily without programming skills.

If you want to use Adobe Flash to create Flash quiz, please go to view how make Flash with Adobe Flash.

High turnover is a head-breaking problem for companies. For many companies, new-hires leave before their probationary period is ended. If your company has a high turnover rate than your competitor, you will lose your good employees to your competitors. Also, your business will also suffer from high costs of attracting, recruiting and training the new staff. So, new hire training is the first important thing to reduce the rate of turnover and enhance the acculturation and productivity of new employees in companies.

Benefits of new hire training

New hires walk in with a fresh view of company and an intrinsic motivation to contribute to their job positions immediately. They start their first day with both excitement and worry. They want to excel in their new jobs, but they do not know where to start.

So, new hire training is necessary. The more background knowledge new hires have about how one workgroup interrelates with ancillary departments, the more new hires will understand his or her impact on the company. Benefits of new hire training:

• Reduce new-hires’ fears.
• Increase the understanding of company, such as culture, company structure, etc.
• Increase new hires productivity.
• Reduce new employee turnover.

Training Content

Training new hires isn’t easy, yet it should not be left to chance. You should set down a complete training program for new hire training, including training content, training schedule, training effects assessment, etc. Generally, your new hire training program should provide the following contents:

• Company information introduction: culture, structure, product and service information, etc.
• Company rules and regulations, policies and procedures.
• Position description and requirements.
• Office applications operation training.

Besides these, provide company manual to new hires, it can be extra gifts for them to learn more about your company.

Evaluate new-hire training effectiveness

Evaluating new-hire training effectiveness is important to ensure improvements for the new-hire training courses and to monitor training standards in your company. Methods of assessment are different for various training contents.

For evaluating the training effects of company information introduction and company rules and regulations, policies and procedures, computer-based test is the first choice for assessment in terms of money-saving and time-saving. No papers printed, no pens needed, and no hand-marking work – all the quiz results are graded automatically after the quiz takers taking the test. For conducting computer-based test, QuizCreator is a good assistant which provides 9 question types with multimedia supported and 3 quiz results tracking options (E-mail tracking, QuizCreator Online tracking and LMS tracking). Another unique feature is that QuizCreator can generate insightful and direct analysis reports for quiz results. Then trainers can realize the weakness and reinforce the specified knowledge to the new hires.

For evaluating the training effects of position description and requirements, you can evaluate in the process of daily work and coach new hires instantly when they encounter trouble in order to make sure new hires to perform successfully in their new position.

For evaluating the training effects of office applications operation, assign appointed projects to new hires and evaluate the results they do and then correct their wrong operations according to their work.

Summary

To develop a great business, you need to begin all new-hires with an outstanding training experience and tap their potential in their work. A well planned new hire integration process has been proven to increase productivity and retention. By showing an upfront commitment to them, new hires will be confident in their decision to join your organization, motivated and equipped to produce their best work immediately, and more likely to stay. Invest in them early and they’ll stay longer.

I often receive a lot of questions about how to make online quizzes for free. Here is a collection of 12 free online quiz making applications I collect after days’ collection. These apps will help you make quizzes for online use for free. Do you know of any other free online quiz makers that can be helpful? Please add your favorites in the comments.

ProProfs |QuizCreator | Classmaker | QuizBox | Google Docs | MyQuizCreator

Quibblo | eQuizzer | Quizilla |Quizz.Biz | MyStudiyo | EasyTestMaker

1. ProProfs
   

   ProProfs Quiz School makes it easy to create quizzes, tests and exams online with color and images. It is a totally free online quiz program. Users can create a quiz, share it with others, and view results instantly. View sample >

2. Wondershare Quiz CreatorWondershare QuizCreator is the powerful quiz maker software that enables trainers and educators to create Flash-based quizzes and surveys with multimedia objects. With this quiz software, you can quickly create your assessment contents and publish them online.View sample >
3. Classmaker
   

   ClassMarker provides 3 packages quiz testing option, only ClassMarker Standard package is free online service. Users can be used to create online quizzes for individuals or entire groups. But, only registered use can take the quizzes. If you want to non-registered users to take your quizzes, you should upgrade your account. View sample >

4. QuizBox QuizBox is a free online quiz builder that can be used to make quizzes for blogs and websites. The builder allows users to choose the number of questions as well as the number of multiple choice answers. View sample >
5. MyQuizCreator MyQuizCreator is a 100% free quiz tool quickly creates quizzes for blogs, websites, and MySpace profiles. However, you can only create as most as 15 questions for your quizzes, no multimedia supported. View sample >
6. EasyTestMaker
   EasyTestMaker is a FREE online test generator to help you create paper-based tests. You can build multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true/false questions with it. However, you can only create and print the test – other features are available if you upgrade your account with fee.
7. Google Docs Google Docs is a favorite thing for many users which is a totally free, web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application. Users are able to create online quizzes with the form application for free. You can view this tutorial to create quizzes. View sample >
8. Quibblo Quibblo is a social networking site where you can create and take fun quizzes and surveys, view results on a chart and compare your answers to others’. You also can share quizzes with others and embed quizzes on your blogs. View sample >
9. eQuizzer eQuizzer is a web-based quizzing program which allows ingle teacher to create custom quizzes free that can be taken online. Schools who wish to have a separate URL and single student database will incur fees based upon enrollment. View sample >
10. QuizillaQuizilla is a user generated online quiz website which you can make personality quizzes and test for free. The quizzes you created can be embedded on your MySpace, blog, Facebook or any other page on the internet. Also, the quiz host on quizilla.com is free for others to take it. View sampe >
11. Quizz.Biz
    

    Quizz.biz lets users play hundreds of quizzes and create quizzes for free. It is made for bloggers and webmasters who wish to create and integrate quizzes to their sites for their visitors. View sample >

12. MyStudiyo
    

    MyStudiyo is a free quiz creation and quiz sharing website for users to create great-looking quizzes for website or blog. With just a few minutes you can make multimedia quizzes. Any quiz you make is hosted on mystudiyo.com and is available to play for free anytime. View sample >

Generally, these free online tools are good tools for you to create quizzes for free. If you want to get more advanced functions, such as adding math symbols, customizing feedback, inserting images and sounds and other powerful functions, you can try  QuizCreator.

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Online test brings a lot of benefits to assessment: time-saving, flexibility and economical. For test-takers, they can take the online test at their own preferred time – great flexibility. For trainers/teachers, it spares the time to mark the test because the test is graded automatically – big time-saving. For organizations, it saves a lot of cost to employ instructor designers and print millions of test papers – more economical.
As the times progress and society advances, online test will become more and more prevalent in the future assessment work. Thanks to companies develop tons of useful products for us to make online test, they plays an important role in improving productivity to a great online test. This article lists 8 ways to create online test.

• Create online test with desktop Flash quiz maker
• Create online test with Google Docs
• Create online test with Adobe Flash
• Create online test with Microsoft Excel
• Create online test with PHP Script or JavaScript
• Create online test with online test creation software
• Create online test with screen recorder
• Create online test with Adobe Dreamweaver

Create online test with desktop Flash quiz maker
Desktop Flash quiz makers let users create Flash quizzes in minutes without programming skills. Uses can create Flash quizzes with up to 10 question types and then share quizzes online with ease. Additionally, you can integrate images, sounds and Flash animations into quizzes and set unique feedback to each questions as well as randomize questions and answers. Some quiz maker also supplies free quiz results tracking system, like QuizCreator. Users could track all the quiz results with email or free Quiz Management System. You could view the quiz below which is created by QuizCreator. 

Create online test with Google Docs
Google Docs is a totally free online tool to conduct online multiple choice test and surveys. With it, you can create a multiple choice test, invite others to take the test and then grade the test automatically with its formula. Furthermore, it can generate insightful graph analysis for each question with which you get know the extent of understanding for specified knowledge.
Guide to make online test with Google Docs
Guide to share the online test created by Google Docs
Guide to grade the Google Docs quiz automaticallly

Create online test with Adobe Flash
If you are sophisticated with Adobe Flash Script, using Adobe Flash to make test for online use is the most flexible way. You can create quiz in multiple question types and add images, sounds, Flash movies and videos to enrich your test. Here is a tutorial about how to create interactive multiple-choice quiz in Adobe Flash CS4, just view the quiz made by Adobe Flash below.

Create online test with Microsoft Excel
As we all know, Excel is a great program for creating spreadsheets and tracking information, but it is also useful for creating quizzes for online testing. Making question and answer quizzes is a good way to improve on your Excel skills while having a bit of fun. Just look this tutorial to create quiz with Excel.

Create online test with PHP Script or JavaScript
If you are familiar with PHP Script or JavaScript and HTML code, you could choose HTML code and script to create online quiz. Here are some tutorials to help you to make online test for your Web site or else.
Create quiz with PHP script, please have a peek at:
 http://www.trap17.com/index.php/php-quiz-script_t8729.html
Create quiz with JavaScript, please have a peek at:
http://www.spacefem.com/tutorials/typequiz.shtml

Create online test with online test creation software
There are numerous online test-building tools that can create quiz for online testing and grade less of a chore today. Do a Google search for “create online test free”, you will get much many free online quiz tools.
For my part, ProProfs is the most powerful for a free test creation tool. It is totally free program that is supported by ads, lots of ads. It is featured 3 question types. It has many options that control the behavior of your quiz. You can add multimedia objects such as video and image to your test.

Create online test with screen recorder
Some screen recorders have the feature of quiz creation. As far as I know, Adobe Captivate and Tech Smith allow user to create Flash quizzes. Take Captivate for example, it contains advanced quizzing functionality that makes it easy to create your own robust quizzes and assessments with up to 6 question types.

Create online test with Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Dreamweaver is a web development application. For website designers, you also can make an online test for your websites to attract more users by creating test with pop-up Feedback in Dreamweaver. Click to view the steps to create online test with Adobe Dreamweaver.

Summary
In summary, all these 8 ways are enough for you to create test for online use. For make interactive Flash test for online use, desktop quiz maker and Adobe Flash (if you are familiar with Script) are the most suitable. For creating simple test without multimedia, free online quiz creation tool or Google Docs will be nice for you. You also can use Adobe Captivate, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Excel or PHP Script to create online test if you like. You can choose the any of these methods to create your own online test, it’s your choice.

For teachers, grading quiz results for papers manually is definitely a hard job. Google Docs provides a good way for teachers to create online quizzes for teaching and learning, you can view the last posts about creating quizzes and sharing quizzes with Google Docs. But teachers, do you know how to grade the quizzes automatically? If you don’t know, this tutorial will give you the details.

Google Docs supports 7 question types: Text, Paragraph text, Multiple choice, Checkboxes, Choose from a list, Scale and Grid. Only multiple choice questions created by Google Docs can be graded automatically. This tutorial will show you the steps to grade the multiple-choice quiz with Google Docs.

Step 1 – Enter answer key

To simplify the grading work, take the quiz yourself before any students take the quiz. Enter the right answers for the quiz and then click Submit.

Step 2 – Invite learners to take the quiz

To simplify the grading work, take the quiz yourself before any students take the quiz. Enter the right answers for the quiz and then click Submit.

Step 3 – Using Formula to grade the quiz

1. Now go back to your Google Docs. You will see your quiz as one of your saved documents. Click on it and you’ll find all responses in a spreadsheet.

Column A shows the date and time of each response, you can view when the quiz-takers take the quiz. Column B shows the student ID which identifies the unique student and all of your questions in subsequent column C, D, E.

2. Grade each question with IF formula

• The IF formula is similar with Excel, the syntax for the IF function is:=IF ( test, then_value, otherwise_value ) test – a value or expression that is tested to see if it is true or false.

  then_value – the value that is displayed if then_value is true.

otherwise_value – the value that is displayed if then_value is false.

• Input question 1, 2 and 3 by sequence to column F, G and H to store the score for question 1, 2 and 3.
• In cell F3, enter “=if($C3=$C$2,100,0)”, and then select and drag the cell to the end of the question column7. You will see the score of question 1 for each student is graded automatically.
• Then, enter “=if($D3=$D$2,100,0)” and “=if($E3=$E$2,100,0)” to G3 and H3, and do the same steps as F3. After these, you will view the score of each question for each student.

3. Summary the score for each student

Input Total Score to column I to store the total score for each student.

In cell I3, enter “=sum(F3,G3,H3)” to calculate the total score for each student, and then select and drag I3 to I7. Each student’s score for taking the quiz is shown on column I. You saved all that time for grading the quiz with the Formula!

Step 4 – Export the quiz score

Google Docs lets you download the quiz score spreadsheet as CSV, HTML, Text, Excel, OpenOffice and PDF format. By clicking File -> Download as, you will get the score report with ease.

You also can view the summary with graphs charting. Particularly for knowing how much knowledge students master, the summary response is great – especially since you can always click “see complete responses” and have them available to you immediately.

Google Docs is really a useful tool for teaching and learning at the aspect of creating quizzes for assessment. Besides Google Docs, You can create Flash quizzes with QuizCreator and track the quiz results with its QuizCreator Online.

At the last post about creating online quizzes with Google Docs, I showed you the steps to create online quizzes. In this post, I will guide you to share the quizzes you created and then invite others to take quizzes.

As soon as you’re done and your quiz form has been saved, you can go ahead and close this window. Your form will feed into a spreadsheet in Google Docs. The spreadsheet is private by default, even though your form is public.

If you wish, you can share the quiz spreadsheet with others or publish it, but the choice is yours. You can also go in and manually add data to your spreadsheet without having to rely on the form or use the data to make charts. About sharing quiz spreadsheet online to let other take the quiz, there are 2 ways: embed the quizzes to blogs or websites and Email others the quizzes.

Embed the quizzes to your blogs or website

You can embed the quizzes on your blogs or Web site and let people take the quiz in that way.

Simply click More actions which is on the upper right corner, and then select Embed.

After you open the Embed dialog, please copy the codes and then paste into your blog post or website.

<iframe src=”http://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?key=tlwj1KPDoLecvzRyqDu8CFw” width=”760″ height=”680″ frameborder=”0″ marginheight=”0″ marginwidth=”0″>Loading…</iframe>

If you want to share the quiz on your blog, just log in your blog and paste the code to the post you want to embed under the HTML mode.

If you want to embed the quiz on Website, just paste the page to the web page. By default, the quiz you create is 760*780, you can also resize the embed area by modifying the number of width and height.

Email others the quizzes and invite them to take quizzes

The Email this form button lets you email the quiz to specified persons. You can input the email addresses one by one with commas spaced, or you also can choose the email from your contacts.

After that, click Send to send the quiz invitation to these users to invite them take the quiz. Then, the quiz-takers can view and take the quiz in their E-mail address or by clicking the quiz link.

Also, you can send the quiz link directly to others with the link at the bottom of the page. And then send the link to others.

Tip: Custom the quiz confirmation information

By clicking “Edit confirmation”, it will let you edit the confirmation information which appears after quiz-taker finish the quiz.

In the next post, I will show you how to collect and grade the Google Docs quiz results automatically.

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