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The Remote Item Development Environment (RIDE)<br />

David Kuntz<br />

Computer-Based Assessment Innovation Team<br />

Educational Test<strong>in</strong>g Service<br />

Pr<strong>in</strong>ceton, NJ 08541 USA<br />

dkuntz@ets.org<br />

Ned Walthall<br />

Computer-Based Assessment Innovation Team<br />

Educational Test<strong>in</strong>g Service<br />

Pr<strong>in</strong>ceton, NJ 08541 USA<br />

nwalthall@ets.org<br />

RIDE is a prototype of a web-server-based assessment creation tool, developed at ETS. With its three<br />

modules, users can easily create computer-based testlets and <strong>in</strong>structional or diagnostic tutorials, developed<br />

through and delivered over the World Wide Web. The ItemBuilder allows one to construct pre-<strong>format</strong>ted test<br />

questions, without requir<strong>in</strong>g the user to know HTML. The Item Registrar allows one to <strong>in</strong>form a remote<br />

WWW server of the important characteristics of a question, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g the correct answer, any explanations<br />

associated with the question, supplementary files (l<strong>in</strong>ks the questions may conta<strong>in</strong> to other sources), and other<br />

pert<strong>in</strong>ent <strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion. The Testlet Creator allows one to construct l<strong>in</strong>ked, scorable collections of registered<br />

documents, standard <strong>format</strong> or hand-crafted, from one’s ItemRegistry. Depend<strong>in</strong>g on the options selected<br />

dur<strong>in</strong>g the l<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g process, the testlet will provide score reports, rationales, l<strong>in</strong>ks to other <strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ional or<br />

<strong>in</strong>structional material, and primitive diagnostic <strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion and branch<strong>in</strong>g based on rubrics the user provides.

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