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Test Pilot

http://www.clearlearning.com

Test Pilot is Java based package developed at Purdue University. Test Pilot has been designed to provide for the easy creation and deployment on online formative assessment using the latest Internet technologies. It has been vigorously time tested in the most demanding of corporate education, national university, primary and secondary educational environments.

Test Pilot uses platform independent Internet technology to allow it to fit into any educational or corporate computing environment. Test Pilot consists of a database of test, tutorial or survey questions and a Web server extension to administer the surveys and tests and record, score and retrieve user responses.

The main features of Test Pilot include: increases student performance through instant feedback; requires no programming or HTML web page coding; requires no time consuming use of a question markup language; requires only a web browser to participate in an assessment; delivers assessment from nearly any web server on any OS platform; supports powerful, run-time, mathematical formula-based questions; participants actually like taking assessments online.

Test Pilot supports the following question types:

  • Multiple choice
  • Yes/no
  • True/false
  • Fill-in-the-blank
  • Multiple response
  • Matching question
  • Survey questions
  • Section breaks
  • Essay questions

System requirements

Test Pilot's web server component, first of all, requires a web server. The server can be a dedicated machine or it can be a personal computer running some server software. Test Pilot comes in distributions for most common web server platforms as well as distributions for use on a networked personal computer. Most commercial web servers can run or be extended to run Test Pilot.

As Test Pilot's web server component is written in Java, the server must have a 100% Java compliant virtual machine (VM) installed upon it. The web server software must be able to run Java programs like Test Pilot's web server extension.

Test Pilot typically consumes no more than an additional 20 megabytes of main memory on your web server. This includes the memory consumed by the Java VM.

Test Pilot tests consume roughly 2K of disk space per question; thus a 50 question test should consume 100K of disk space.

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