If access to the AUTOQUEST System
were granted to the faculty of the training institutions, then an expected benefit to Ship
Safety would be the use of structured database sand cross-reference documents; as well the
use of an evaluation tool that is established, shred, and automated will permit Ship
Satety to monitor examination used in the approved courses.
The immediate and long-term benefit to all involved with training will
be more effective development of examinations without increased human resource
requirements by reduced duplication of instructor labour to produce examinations, and more
instructor attention given to the development of new course material to address new
training needs.
Similar time and quality benefits would accrue in developing questions
for entry into the various item banks and co-ordinating efforts of others to accomplish
this function.
Multiple-choice (selection response) type questions can be temporarily
modified to be short answer (delivery response) type questions through the suppression of
printing of the alternatives_This provides and an instructor with the capability to
readily produce written assignments and to reproduce these as multiple-choice tests later
in the course.
