Report ; Test Generating Syste m A TEST GENERATING SYSTEM DESIGNED TO FACILITAT E INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION IN PREPARATORY MATHEMATIC S Josephine Koistinen, Karl Lindberg, and Stephen Heple r Department of Mathematics and Computer Scienc e Wayne State Universit y Detroit, Michigan 4820 2 The need for instruction which can vary with the requirements o f individual learners, both in terms of time and stress given to variou s parts of the subject content, is particularly evident in college subjects which are designed to raise over-all performance in a genera l skill area . This type of instruction will be referred to a s individualized instruction . Programs which use this form of instruction often have special needs which are not found in more traditiona l programs . How well these needs are met can greatly influence th e effectiveness of the over-all program . The purpose of this paper i s to indicate how a test generating system has been used to answer effectively several needs of individualized instruction in an important , general skills area . Preparatory mathematics is a course or program of instruction i n which the mathematical skills of arithmetic, elementary algebra an d
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