Educational Technology Center Major Projects

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Not all documentation here is current.

the Automated Quiz System

A system for creating quiz programs which were consistent in presentation, configurable through a configuration utility available to teachers or administrators, and otherwise shared the pedagogical design characteristics of typical ETC dialogue programs.

• the Quiz Driver unit, dependent on the Ports unit (or the TextPorts unit at the time);
• the Quiz Editor (QED) providing interactive editing of a configuration file to control the runtime options and limits the quiz program would be allowed.
• A variety of such quiz programs, designed and coded during the late 70's and early 80's.

This work was all done on the Terak microcomputer on 8" discs, and has probably only been partly recovered.

the Scientific Reasoning Series

• v 1.00, under the (UCSD) p-System (now maintained by Cabot Software, Bristol, England)
• v 1.10, under DOS with Turbo Pascal 4.0 / 5.0

Several papers have been written on this, including Learning Scientific Reasoning.

the Annenberg/CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting) Precalculus Mathematics Project

Problem Solving, under FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of PostSecondary Education)

Understanding Spoken Japanese, phase 1 (prototype)

Understanding Spoken Japanese, phase 3