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March
2006
Welcome
to the March issue of the Pedagogue Solutions
Newsletter, our online general interest newsletter
for the assessment community. The Newsletter highlights
industry news, provides assessment-related tips
and techniques, and updates our clients on our
latest products and services.
Pedagogue Solutions Returns to
its Assessment Roots
For us it’s not so much a change as
a return to our roots...
In the early 1990s, Pedagogue Solutions
created one of the very first electronic assessment
systems. We called this DOS-based product PedagogueTesting,
and it was an immediate success. During this time we
also entered the related world of eLearning.
Over the years being in two businesses
simultaneously led to a drain on resources, so this
past fall we made the decision to exit the eLearning
business entirely and focus all of our resources on
our Pedagogue Assessment Management System and Service...>>
Read
full Return to Roots article.
Pedagogue Solutions can help you during,
before and after a product launch though our assessment
consulting services.
Everyone knows what a multiple-choice
question looks like, but not everyone knows how to name
the parts. The part that contains the question is called
the stem. The choices from which the student chooses
are called the choices. The choice that is correct is
called the correct answer (or best response) and the
incorrect choices are called the distractors.
How well you write the distractors controls
the difficulty of the question. If you have written
the distractors properly (i.e. as plausible choices—see
full article) this gives you a lot of information about
where your students have misconceptions about the material—information
that you can then use for meaningful remediation...>>
Read
full Writing Distractos article.
Pedagogue Assessment Management
System Version 8.0 Available Late January
Pedagogue® Solutions
announces the release of Version 8.0 this month. The
Pedagogue Assessment Management System works as a stand-alone
assessment system, easily integrates with all major
learning management systems and supports global use
with multi-lingual capabilities. A few of the new features
found in version 8.0 are printable certificates, survey
type questions, and the "My Pedagogue" student
interface...>>Read
the full Press Release.
Let us know if there are any topics of
interest to you that we have not covered or you would
like covered in more detail. Send us your feedback
on our services, solutions and resources. Your feedback
is important to us. We use your comments to continuously
improve our products and services, to better serve you.
Here are just a few comments from other
users like you...
"I have
relied on Pedagogue for assessment technology, expertise
and delivery for many years, with great success."
"I have
successfully used ExamsDirectat two companies
and I'm impressed with the reliable performance of the
platform. "
