Development and evaluation of a microcomputer testing terminal for testing and instruction

This paper describes the development and evaluation of the hardware and software of a stand-alone microcomputerized testing terminal. The microterminal represents a viable way of conducting and scoring multiple-choice tests and reliably obtains this information for presentation to a centralized management computer system. Obligating informational presentation to regular programmed materials and eliminating the need to handle constructed responses removes the requirements for large display features, thus contributing greatly to the low-cost feature of the microterminal.