Instructors who use a microcomputer and a word processing program to prepare multiple choice and true-false items can accumulate many separate sequential exam files. But when exams are stored separately, it is difficult to use them for building new exams. This article describes a system of programs and file structures that reorganizes these exam files so that individual questions can be used to build new exams. The main component of the system consists of two programs. The first reorganizes existing exam files and builds an indexing scheme. The second permits a user to construct new exams from the reorganized questions. The system was written in BASIC for the TRS-80 Model III.
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References
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TRS-80 Model III Disk System Owner's Manual, Tandy Corporation, Fort Worth, 1980.
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FinkelL. and BrownJ. R., TRS-80 Data File Programming, Wiley, New York, 1981.
