Tool to Develop and Apply Objective Tests

1 Luciana A M Zaina, University of São Paulo, Digital System Department of Polytechnic School , Brazil,[email protected] du 2 Graça Bressan, University of São Paulo, Digital System Department of Polytechnic School , Brazil, [email protected] 3 Wilson V Ruggiero, University of São Paulo, Digital System Department of Polytechnic School , Brazil, [email protected] Abstract  Distance education has been increasing all over the world and a great discussion has taken place about the choice of methods to follow the student evolution. The teacher can use a chat, a forum, a multiple choice test tool, etc to verify the student's knowledge acquisition. In spite of the simplicity to construct and to apply the objective tests, sometimes they don't allow the teacher to be sure of the real student understanding. The tool presented in this work allows the teacher to create tests with multiple-choice questions, which have an algorithm that works with numeric values associated with it. The values used to solve the problem are choice randomly every time the question is presented to the learner and these values are applied in the question description. The main goal of the tool is to force learners to understand the problem in order to solve it instead of memorizing the question right answer.