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---------------------------------------------------------------------- OLYMPIAD (Contest Scoring for Knowledge and Judgment) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INDEX OLYMPIAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Test Cover Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Sample Answer Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Bibliography Asking the Questions (1980-1990) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Answers (1991-1994) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Application in the Classroom (1995-) . . . . . . . . . . 5 Quality Management (CQI, TQM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Running a DOS Program on a Windows Computer . . . . . . . 6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OLYMPIAD 1/6 (Scoring by Knowledge and Judgment) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Each spring, high school students compete for scholarships at Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Over 3,000 have come from more than 70 high schools located in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska during the past nine years. Two tests are offered: General and Advanced. Two sizes of schools are recognized: small and large. The top four individual winners on each type of test are awarded scholarships. Top schools are recognized by their three member team of top scoring contestants. All-school results can be used to compare schools. Large schools seem to win by the quantity of questions answered. Small schools seem to win more by quality, by students having good self-judgment in reporting what they know or can reason. Olympiad scoring not only selects winners who know or can do, and who answer with confidence in their abilities, it also avoids ties. The qualitative factor routinely breaks tied scores. The Biology Olympiad test is not a guess test. It is a multiple- choice test administered for students to report what they know or can do. They must evaluate their own information or reasoning before marking. They are rewarded for both their sound judgment and their knowing and reasoning. The test takes questions that are typically used in a traditional guess test at lower levels of thinking and presents them for students to answer at higher levels of thinking. These same levels of thinking are required in writing answers to good essay questions. The program can be used between groups in which all scores are counted or in which the top three in a group are considered the team. OLYMPI15.ZIP contains the following programs and information files. OL EXE main menu OLYMPIAD EXE scores tests for individual and team-of-3 winners OLYSTAT EXE histogram, graph, and item analysis OLYTEAM EXE quality and quantity graph of group average scores OLYREF EXE answer bar graph and referee marks OLYERROR EXE checks card reader errors BRT71EFR EXE PDS BASIC 7.1 run-time module OLYINST DOC these instructions OLGRAPH1 DOC graph for individual scores OLGRAPH2 DOC graph for school or group average scores OLSAMPLE DOC sample practice deck of 25 tests records OLAVERAG DOC practice table of average scores for small schools REGISTER.DOC registeration of use Also see VENDINFO.DIZ and OLYMPIAD.HIS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCIENCE OLYMPIAD 2/6 1992 [test cover page] GENERAL BIOLOGY SECTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANSWER CARD INSTRUCTIONS I. NAME AND SCHOOL SCHOOL NAME CODE 1. Write your name on the top line of the pink answer card (see example below). Albany [1## = small] 101 2. Write your school's name on the next Atchison[2## = large] 201 line (which is labeled 'COURSE'). Atlantic 218 II. IDENTIFICATION NUMBER Auburn 202 1. Find your school in the list at the Benton 203 right and write the three digit code Blue Springs 204 for your school in the first three Central 205 squares on the pink answer card. Eudora 206 2. Then darken the small rectangles cor- Falls City 207 responding to your school's code with Gallatin 103 your pencil. Grain Valley 208 -----------[pink answer card]----------- Harlan 209 Do not make ) . Holt-County R-III 104 any marks in) NAME _____Jane Doe____________ . Jefferson C-123 105 the left ) . Kearney 210 card margin.) COURSE ___Placeville__________ . Lawson 106 . . Ludlow 107 . [ ] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . Malven 108 . [ ] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . Maryville R-II 211 . [ ] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . Maysville 109 . [0] == 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . Mid-Buchanan 212 . [0] (These six numbers are ) 9 . Nodaway Holt R-VII 110 . [2] (already filled in and ) 9 . Northeast Nodawa 111 . [9] (marked. Do not change) == . Oak Park 213 . [9] (them. ) == . Park Hill 214 . [9] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 == . Pattonsburg 112 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Platte City 217 TEST MARKING AND GRADING INFORMATION Richmond 215 Rosendale 114 Darken the proper answer rectangle corresponding Savannah 216 to the question number on the test booklet. It Stanberry 115 is permissible to write in this booklet. There South Nodaway 116 are 100 questions. There is a time limit. Come South Page 117 back to the ones you don't know as time permits. Table Rock-Steinauer 113 You start from a base of 100 points. Tecumseh 118 Scoring: each right = +1 West Nodaway R-I 119 each wrong = -1 Worth County R-III 120 each blank = no change (That is, if all answers are given correctly, score = 200; if all are incorrect, score = zero (hopefully, an unlikely event!) If you can reduce the number of possible answers to two (2), an intelligent guess will be to your advantage. Random guessing, when you have no idea of the answer, will reduce your score. However, you must be the judge as to whether to leave an answer blank or to make a guess. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WRITE YOUR NAME ON THE LINE BELOW AND TEAR OFF THE BOTTOM PART OF THIS PAGE. KEEP THIS PART SINCE THE TEST NUMBER GIVEN HERE WILL BE THE ONLY WAY YOU WILL BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY YOUR SCORE WHEN THE TEST RESULTS ARE SENT TO YOUR INSTRUCTOR. TEST NUMBER __999____ NAME ________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sample Answer Card 3/6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NAME _______________________________ COURSE _____________________________ I [ ] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 D [ ] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [ ] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 N [ ] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 U [ ] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 M [ ] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 B [ ] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 E [ ] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R [ ] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ANSWERS 1 [A][B][C][D][E] 51 [A][B][C][D][E] 2 A B C D E 52 A B C D E 3 A B C D E 53 A B C D E 4 A B C D E 54 A B C D E 5 A B C D E 55 A B C D E \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ 46 A B C D E 96 A B C D E 47 A B C D E 97 A B C D E 48 A B C D E 98 A B C D E 49 A B C D E 99 A B C D E 50 A B C D E 100 A B C D E ---------------------------------------- Based on card F-4000-9 printed by the Clearview Printing Co. Inc. MAXIMUM: 500 STUDENTS in 100 SCHOOLS or GROUPS selecting from 100 QUESTIONS. REQUIRED: ANSWER KEY AND ITEM WEIGHT AS FIRST AND SECOND CARDS IN DECK. KEY CARD: 1-3 = 555, 4-6 = total number of items to score, 7-9 = 000 10 blank 11-110 100 answer positions as blank, A, B, C, D, or E WEIGHT CARD: 1-3 = 666, 4-6 = 000, 7-9 = 000 10 blank 11-110. Blank = 0, A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, D = 4, E = 5 (Blank a bad item or to tabulate an information item) ANSWER CARD: 1-3 School or Group, 4-6 Test form, 7-9 test number 10 blank 11-110 100 answer positions as blank, A, B, C, D, or E Use card reader, ASCII text editor or wordprocessor to create answer file. ------------------------------------------------------------ BIBLIOGRAPHY 4/6 ------------------------------------------------------------ Asking the Questions (1980-1990) Hart, Richard A. 1981. Evaluating and rewarding student initiative and judgement or an alternative to "sitting through" a course if you did not test out. Pages 75-76 in Directory of Teaching Innovations in Biology. Meeth, L. R. and Dean S. Gregory, Ed. Studies in Higher Education:Arlington, Virginia. 252 pages. Hart, Richard and Kenneth Minter. 1985. Using a computer to manage typical classroom problems. National Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio 18-21 April. Minter, Kenneth and Richard Hart. 1986. Essay testing using multiple choice questions. Missouri Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Warrensburg, MO 25-26 April. Hart, Richard and Kenneth Minter. 1988. Diagnostic Testing Using Multi-Choice and Matching Questions. National Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO 7-10 April. Minter, Kenneth and Richard Hart. 1989. Student Choice in Computer Graded Tests. National Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington 6-9 April. Hart, Richard. 1989. Practical Programs for Oversized Classes Resulting from Investigations into the Use of a Campus Computer System as a Part of an Instructional System (1981-1989). 217 pages. TX 2 602 807 Hart, Richard. 1989. Professor of the Year. Northwest Missouri State University. Hart, Richard. 1990. Professor of Biology, Emeritus, Northwest Missouri State University. The Answers (1991-1994) Hart, Richard. 1991. Founded Nine-Patch Software to underwrite the distribution of research results. (Nine-patch is the quilt design created from the three levels of thinking used by the three parties involved in education: students, teachers, and administrators. The nine squares represent the nine ways anything said or done in a classroom can be interpreted.) Hart, Richard and Kenneth Minter. 1991. Student Choice in Multiple-Choice Testing. National Science Teachers Association Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas 27-30 March. ------------------------------------------------------------ BIBLIOGRAPHY (continued) 5/6 ------------------------------------------------------------ Hart, Richard. 1992. Publication of quality scoring research results in three practical computer DOS programs. TRAINER for class tests, EQUALIZER for individual interactive use, and OLYMPIAD, a specific contest scoring application of TRAINER. Hart, Richard. 1993. Founding board member and volunteer treasurer of the Educational Software Cooperative, Inc. The ESC publishes educational software on CD-ROM and assists authors and teachers on CompuServe, Edforum, Section 2. Hart, Richard. 1994. EQUALIZER (DOS) edited into EXPEDITOR (VBDOS for DOS and Windows). Application in the Classroom (1995-) Motes, Andrew. 1995. ESC founder, features both traditional forced-choice scoring for ranking and free-choice scoring for knowledge and judgment in the most recent versions of the award winning children's educational software "Best of 1994", School-Mom Plus. West, Rosemary. 1995. ESC home page: http://execpc.com/~esc Hart, Richard. 1995. TRAINER (score knowledge and judgment) and TRUE MULTIPLE-CHOICE (write, review, game and test) released for middle-school, high school, and college. ------------------------------------------------------------ Quality Management (CQI, TQM) Knowledge and judgment (quantity and quality) test results are of instructional value in any classroom. They are also of administrative value, especially for a quality management system such as CQI (1), QE (2), TQM (3), classical OBE, New Standards, etc. 1. Hubbard, Dean L., Editor. 1993. Continuous Quality Improvement. Maryville, Missouri: Prescott Publishing Co. 524 pages. 2. Rinehart, Gray. 1993. Quality Education. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: ASQC Quality Press. 328 pages. 3. Tribus, Myron. 1993. TQM in Education: The Theory and How To Put It To Work. ERIC Accession Number ED370168. 22 pages. ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Running a DOS Program on a Windows Computer 6/6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You have several options, depending on how you have installed the program. Plug-in-and-run Disk: (You leave nothing on the computer.) 1. Click on the floppy disk drive. Double click on the executable file. (OL.EXE as an example for Olympiad.) 2. Exit Windows. At the DOS prompt enter the command to start the program: A:\OL (Using OL.EXE as an example in drive A.) To return to Windows, enter WIN at the DOS prompt: C:\WIN Press the <Enter> key. Installed on Hard Disk: 3. On the Program Manager, click on the FILE and RUN options. Then as in (2.) above enter the command to start the program. 4. Click on the Main menu. Double click on the MS-DOS icon. Then as in (2.) above enter the command to start the program. Enter EXIT to return to Windows. Press the <Enter> key. From Your Own Start Button: 1. Set up a new blank program group. a. Click on the FILE option of Program Manager. b. Click on NEW. c. Click on (new) PROGRAM GROUP and OK. d. Enter a program group title description. e. Click OK or press <Enter> key. 2. Add a start-button to the new group. a. Click on the File option of Program Manager. b. Click on NEW. c. Click on (new) PROGRAM ITEM and OK. d. Enter a start-button title description. e. Click in the command line. f. Enter the command to start the program. g. Click OK or press <Enter> key. 3. Double click on the start-button to run the program. Other Information from Your Windows Manual. 1. To ADD more start-buttons, use the second set of steps. 2. To MODIFY a start-button or program group, click on its icon to highlight it. Click on the FILE and PROPERTIES options of Program Manager. 3. To DELETE a start-button or program group, click on its icon to highlight it. Click on the FILE and DELETE options of Program Manager. (A thank you to John Veit, EZ Software, for pointing out the need for the above information in the September, 1995, issue of ASPects.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------