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Advanced Mathematics Testmaker Plus!
How the publisher describes it:
“Cambridge Advanced Mathematics Testmaker Plus! contains over 2000 questions. Each set of 44 questions covers a specific topic. The sets can be used to generate tests, worksheets or assignments on single or mixed topics. The documents generated can be printed or placed on the school's network, where they can be completed on-screen and automatically marked. A detailed results editor, which automatically collates the on-screen test results, also allows the teacher to add results from other sources and to analyse these results for individual students or groups between specified dates.”
Review by Peter Hall
In brief:
If you want to create your own tests, whether topic based or covering the whole syllabus, then this is an ideal piece of software for you.
“The electronic results tool needed me to spend a little more time getting used to”
This is an easy to use software product that is designed to produce tests for A-level students. The software has split the curriculum into different categories (Geometry and Trigonometry, Functions, Calculus, Probability and Number and Algebra). Each category is split into a number of sub topics (For example the Geometry section is divided into Circle Theorems, Vectors, Circles Ellipses and Hyperbolae, Trigonometry, Polar Coordinates, Applications of Trigonometry, Trigonometric Identities, Inverse Trigonometric Functions). The CD holds over 2000 questions.
When designing the test one is able to create a clear header for the test, including school name, logo, class name, teacher name and so forth. The questions can be of three sorts – Question Only (the “traditional” format), Short Answer (these are questions with several parts) or Multiple Choice.
Once the test is created it is easy for the user to re-arrange the questions into any order, and change the marks for each question. The test can be printed, saved for the students to read (the system creates a webpage for each question) or saved for the students to complete electronically – and the system record their responses. An answer sheet can also be generated. Each question exists in two versions, with slightly different numbers, to allow the user to create two versions (for classes without enough space to spread out?).
If you want to create your own tests, whether topic based or covering the whole syllabus, then this is an ideal piece of software for you.
The electronic results tool to allow the teacher to collect results from on-line tests needed me to spend a little more time getting used to, but I am sure that it could work wonders – especially in a time when we are being persuaded to have more work available on-line – this system would appear to enable the teacher to set up on-line tests, have the computer mark them, and give the teacher the results from the test.
Peter Hall • AST Mathematics, Imberhorne School, East Grinstead
CD-ROM ISBN 0 521 00641 4
Cambridge University Press
