Testing Statistics

Testing Statistics is a web based multiple choice system with detailed feedback for students. It features an intranet to allow lecturers and tutors to add questions.

Students are presented with 10 questions chosen randomly from a question bank. Two attempts at each question are allowed. 

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Introduction for Lecturers or Tutors

Testing Statistics (c) is a web-based, computer-aided assessment system that tests user's knowledge of various aspects of Statistics. Staff users with the appropriate permissions may create their own tests to support any course or topic they like. The current quizzes support the University of Glasgow course Statistics 1C.

Each user session consists of a number of questions (10 by default), selected at random from a large pool of questions at the appropriate Level of Difficulty (1, 2, or 3 in increasing order of difficulty). All the questions are multiple-choice and have five possible answers. Once the user selects an answer, a message appears along with some informative, context-sensitive feedback. By default, when users select the wrong option(s) they are allowed one more attempt at the question by choosing from among the remaining options. (Staff with the necessary permissions may opt to vary this, and allow 1, 2, 3 or 4 attempts at each question.) A user who answers incorrectly on the last attempt allowed is told the correct answer. At the end of the session, users are told the number of questions they got correct first time, and the number they got correct (on all attempts).

Questions may be created using a mixture of text and images. The images may be screen dumps from a Statistics package, graphs, etc. but they must be in the form of .jpg files.
 

Instructions for students

Each session consists of eight questions, selected at random from a large pool of questions for the appropriate type. All the questions are multiple-choice and have five possible answers. You should read each question and the alternative answers carefully. When you are ready, use the cursor to select the answer(s) you think correct, then click on the Check answer button.

A message will appear, telling you whether your answer was right or wrong, and the option(s) you chose will be marked appropriately ( or ). If your first attempt is wrong, you can have a second try at the question, but if you are wrong again then you will be told the correct answer. You must then move on to the next question by clicking the Next question button. At the end of your session, you will be told the number of questions you got correct first time, and the number you got correct (first or second time).

If you are attempting a quiz as part of a Statistics 1C practical session, your tutor will tell you which quiz to work through.  At other times, you are welcome to try any of the quizzes - but you should wait until after the relevant block of lectures has been completed.

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