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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 02:04:43 -0500
From: steve-alessi@uiowa.edu (Steve Alessi)
Subject: drill designer 1.1 (development directory), a drill design utility
Drill Designer 1.1 for the Macintosh is a package of HyperCard
XCMD's and Think C functions for creating instructional drill programs
in HyperCard, Authorware, or Think C. These commands facilitate the
creation of a queue of items and the subsequent modification of that queue
based on correct and incorrect responses from a student. The primary
feature of item queuing with Drill Designer 1.1 is that it keeps track of
performance on each item and provides more practice with those
items answered incorrectly, thereby increasing the drill's efficiency.
Drill Designer 1.1 commands do not do any presentation to or input
from the student -- your own code must do that. Drill Designer 1.1
keeps track of the item queue, permits automatic or manual
modification of the queue, and provides disk storage and retrieval of
student performance and progress.
The instructional theory underlying Drill Designer 1.1 is described in
Chapter 3 of Computer-Based Instruction: Methods and Development,
by Steve Alessi and Stan Trollip, published by Allyn & Bacon.
Drill authors should have a good working knowledge of either
HyperCard, Authorware, or Think C, whichever will be used to produce
drills.
Hardware Requirements: Macintosh Centris or higher.
Software Requirements - Macintosh System 7 or later and one of
the following: HyperCard (version 2.0 or later), Authorware
Professional (version 2.2 or later), or Think C (4.0 or later).
Manuals and shareware registration forms are included in both
TeachText and Microsoft Word formats.
The package is a binhex'ed and self-expanding Stuffit archive.
There is a $30 shareware fee if you choose to use Drill Designer 1.1
for creating and distributing your own drill programs.
This software package may be freely distributed in its entirety, and
may be included on other software archives and CD's.
A similar package for DOS and Windows is also available in the
SimTel archive.
Stephen M. Alessi
The University of Iowa
steve-alessi@uiowa.edu