Platinum Educational Group offers Technology-Enhanced Items (TEI) questions in our question banks and provides instructors with the ability to create their own select-all-that-apply questions. Currently, we offer the following TEI styles to be added to instructor-created exams: select-all-that-apply, drag-and-drop, options box, ordered response, and sequence.
Note: Due to the functionality of TEI questions, they cannot be used in printed exams.
Note: As the National Registry adds new TEI question styles, our education and development teams will continue to update our website and test banks as promptly as possible.
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B. How to Create Select All that Apply Questions.
A. What are TEI Questions?
Technology-enhanced questions refer to test items that use computer technology to simulate situations encountered in clinical practice. This can include both select all that apply questions and standard multiple-choice questions.
B. How to Create a Select All that Apply Questions:
1. In your Instructor role for EMSTesting, click the tab Manage Questions.
2. On the top right, click the button New Question.
3. Select Question Type, then click Create at the bottom right of the page.
4. Enter the Question Text.
4. Enter the Answers/Annotation:
Note: Some sections of this area will vary depending on the selected question type.
Number of Answers: Slide the dial to increase the number of responses.
Number of Options: Slide the dial to increase the number of options.
Text: The text that will appear for the answers and/or options.
Correct Answers: Indicate the correct answer(s) or sequence. This section will include a note to explain how that TEI question type functions.
Annotation: (Optional) The note that will appear for the question.
5. Select the Properties tab and enter the required and desired information.
Question Reference ID: (Optional) This is where you can assign an individualized reference identifier to your question. When building your tests, this will allow you to pull that specific question onto a test using the “Pull Questions By Text, Keyword, or ID” option.
Question Bank: The drop-down will indicate the bank the question is in our program. Many users will have only one option.
School: The drop-down will allow active instructors from multiple institutions to select the school to which their question will belong. If you are associated with only one school, you will have only one option.
Status: The drop-down allows you to adjust the status of your question.
- Note: Your question must be marked Active to be included in a test.
Cut Score: (Optional) This defaults to 0.9. The drop-down assigns the appropriate cut score for your question. If you need help determining the appropriate score for your question, please check out our article What is Cut Score, available here.
Bloom Level: (Optional) The drop-down assigns the appropriate Bloom level for your question. If you need help finding the appropriate level, please refer to our article, "What is Bloom Level?" found here.
Reading Level: (Optional) To determine the reading level for your question, click the "[re-calc]" link, and the program will calculate your reading grade level.
Scenario Question: If you check the box to mark your questions as Scenario Questions when applicable, you will be able to use the "Scenario Based Questions" sort when building your tests.
CAT Enabled: You can mark your question as CAT Enabled if you would like to build your school's question bank for students to use while practicing with the computer-adaptive tests.
6. Click the Keyword tab, then add any keywords desired.
On this tab, you can attach specific words or phrases to your questions to make them easier to locate. For example, if you are adding multiple questions to the program for a specific test, you can add a keyword such as the name of the test (e.g., "Airway1" or "Anatomy") to all of those questions. Then, when you are building your test, you can use the “Pull Questions By Text, Keyword, or ID” option with your assigned keyword to pull all of your questions with one search.
7. Click the Curriculum tab and add a curriculum.
On this tab, you will cross-reference your question with the topic area(s) it relates to. Questions can be associated with multiple objectives across multiple curricula.
Note: Your question must have at least one curriculum assigned to it in order to include it in a test at that provider level. It doesn't need to be correct, but something must be added.
- Choose Program Type from the drop-down.
- Note: If you choose N/A, you will not be able to complete the process of adding a curriculum and, therefore, will not be able to pull the questions onto a test.
- Select the Provider Level to choose which students the question will be appropriate for.
- Select the Curriculum.
- Select the Curriculum Level. Once you have made your selections, be sure to click the Add Curriculum button. You can add additional Curricula as needed.
7. Save at the bottom of the page.
Once you have completed the steps above, you can compile your questions into a test.