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How to Create a Test in TAO
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Working With Metadata in TAO
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Configuring Interactions: What Possibilities do You Have?
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Proctoring Assessments in TAO
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Interpreting Results Tables in TAO
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Writing Your Own Scoring Rules for Your Assessments: An Example
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Best Practices for Working with Multiple Users in a Small-scale Authoring Scenario Part 1: Set-up
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Best Practices for Working with Multiple Users in a Small-scale Authoring Scenario Part 2: Workflow
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Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type: Part 1
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Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type: Part 2
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Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type: Part 3
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Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type: Part 4
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Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type: Part 5
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TAO Terminology Explained Part 1: TAO Architecture
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TAO Terminology Explained Part 3: Scoring Assessments
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Access Control
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Test-taker Tools: Accessibility
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Test-taker Tools: Calculators
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Math Entry Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Choice Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Hot-text Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with an Extended Text Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a File Upload Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with an Inline Choice or a Text Entry Interaction
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TAO Ignite: Look and Feel
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How does scoring work in TAO? (II)
Differentiating between the interactions available for task EXPLAIN
The following question is addressed in this section: if you want to construct a test question which presents your candidates with an EXPLAIN task, how do you decide between the interactions available?
The GUIDANCE differentiator
The main difference between the two interactions used for the task EXPLAIN lies in the ways in which it is possible to limit candidates' input when using the Text Entry interaction: it is possible (and common) to use Text Entry to provide a limited set of characters (such as numbers or math symbols when the question asks for a mathematical explanation, to reduce possible entry mistakes), and it is generally used for shorter texts than the Extended Text interaction.
The limitations placed on the candidates' responses in Text Entry interactions and, in contrast, the freedom of response in Extended Text interactions can be mapped quite clearly onto the differentiator indicating the amount of guidance given to them.
Indeed, when we plot the two interaction types on the GUIDANCE spectrum as follows:
We can see that whereas Text Entry offers a little guidance, Extended Text offers none at all. This gives us the main indicator when choosing between these two interactions for a particular test question of the type EXPLAIN.
To sum up, the most important factor in choosing between the two main interactions for a particular test question of the type EXPLAIN will be the amount of guidance you wish to give candidates.