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faculty toolkit - assessment tools


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Exam Master

Exam Master Online gives medical faculty the ability to leverage their time and resources by helping them to manage the testing and evaluation of their students more efficiently. With this convenient web-based application faculty can assess student knowledge, create customized examinations and study sessions for individuals or groups of students, manage scores, compare test results. It enables faculty to:

  • Create and administer exams
  • See scores and track progress by student and by class for assigned exams
  • Access data essential for peer-performance comparative analyses
  • Utilize a database of thousands of questions across the basic and clinical sciences
  • Enter custom questions for specific testing purposes via built-in Authoring Tool
  • Assign directed studies online to individuals or entire classes
  • Create reports such as those now required by the MSPE criteria
  • Export data to programs such as MS-Excel(tm) for additional graphing/charting
  • E-mail and post messages for individual students or for classes regarding exams
  • View scoring/progress of those students doing self-studies via the Institutional Version
  • Copy exams to other faculty members thereby allowing the sharing of resources
Yes, requires VPN

The Exam Master gateway is configured to allow 50 concurrent users access to the USMLE Step 1, Step 2 and Step 3 products. Each product is actually three products in one and, together, offer access to 16,000+ questions and explanations. Additionally, through this gateway, users can access the medical specialty board products as well as individual medical subjects and courses (new this year).

This gateway requires individuals to first register with the system (they need only do it once) and then use a username and password to access the main menu. The username and password are required because the system maintains personal information and examination and study history for each user.

WEBesprit ©

WEBesprit

This tool simplifies data collection, tracking, and reporting. See a list of its features. Yes, use your WEBesprit user ID and password to log in. For more information about using this tool, please contact Lynn Yeoman, PhD.

BECON

BECON

This Course Management System powered by Blackboard has a robust online assessment system. Create surveys, quizes and a questions pool. Determine when you want the assessment instruments available. Give timed tests. Read more about BECON or request a course set up. Yes, requires VPN, then use your BCM ECA (email) user ID and password to log in. For additional information about creating assessments using BECON, contact Sherry Vafa, EdD.

Zoomerang

Zoomerang

This online survey tool allows you to quickly and easily design surveys, send the surveys to targeted groups, and analyze the results. Yes. Zoomerange comes in a variety of flavors. Zoomerang Basic is free and allows users to easily create and send shorter, less complex surveys and view survey data online for a limited amount of time.

Perseus Survey Solutions

Perseus Survey Solutions

Perseus SurveySolutions enables organizations to:
  • Author surveys in an intuitive word processing environment
  • Conduct sophisticated surveys
  • Improve survey response rate
  • Ensure anonymity of survey respondents
  • Perform real-time web-based reporting and analysis
  • Combine results of phone, email, and web-based surveys
  • Automatically store responses to a centralized database
  • Manage surveys remotely via web browser
Yes Comes in several versions. See which version is right for you. Free 30-day trial available. Please be aware that number of responses are limited in the the 30-day trial.

 

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