Math Man's LXR Info page




Common Questions

1. What is LXR Test?

LXR Test is a powerful item banking test generator. LXR Test item banks can
be massive and may contain many types of questions including multiple choice,
True/False, matching, short answer, and open ended.

2. How long has it been around?

History:

What was:
Mac platform for 10 years

What is:
Mac and Windows versions :
personal
professional
scoring
interactive

3. Where do I get item banks?

a) purchase them commercially
b) make your own **
c) have your school district join BCARC
BCARC databanks available include science, math, social studies, law, french
immersion math, english on CD rom. Math for example has questions from
grade 3 to AP Calculus.

** Important Considerations before starting your own bank:


4. What kind of a system do I need to run LXR Test?

System Requirements:


For a Dos machine:

Bare Bones: 386 or better machine with 4 megs of RAM and windows and 10 megs of hard drive space.

Suggested: 486 DX 33 or better machine, 8 megs of RAM, reasonably fast video card, 40 - 50 megs of hard drive space and CD rom.

For a Mac machine:

Bare Bones: Mac Classic running system 7 with 4 megs of RAM and 10 megs of hard drive space. (it will be slow and frustrating)

Suggested: How much do you want to spend? Any of the new Macs with 8 megs , 40 - 50 megs of hard drive space and CD rom will do a great job.

5. How much does LXR Test 5.1 cost?


Note: all prices as of Oct./95 in Canadian $s
LXR Test which ranges from personal edition single user ( $277) to the 'Cadilac' Interactive scoring edition site licence which costs approximately $ 2300.

6. Do I need any supporting software to make up math tests?



Note: all prices as of Oct./95 in Canadian $s
Yes, but the software can be used for other activities also. You will need an equation editor; Mathtype is a popular program which costs $189 (windows or mac) . Theorist ($263) and Expressionist are two other equation editors.

You will also need a graph generating program. For Mac, Zap-a-graph is popular ( $119) and for Windows Graphmatica is a shareware program. ( $25 US ).

You will also need a paint program. Macs come with Macpaint (I think?) While Windows provides Paintbrush free. These are both inferior paint programs but are fine to start with. Canvas is a good paint program. ($219)

You might like a good program for getting accurate geometric diagrams. Geometer's Sketchpad does this and a whole lot more! ( $238)

7. What is interactive LXR?

Interactive LXR is a great piece of software which allows us to use LXR Test with our classes in an interactive setting. That is the kids do practice and scored tests directly on computers which may be stand alone or networked. In fact, you can give your students the interactive student module to take home and use on their own home computers along with any interactive tests which you have created.

8. Scored Testing with LXR

Interactive LXR Test can be used to 'spice up' your techniques of reviewing and testing. Scored interactive test results be imported directly into Remark or Integrade mark books as well as many other electronic gradebooks. Note: scored testing may be done interactively or on mark sense cards such as Scantron cards.
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