Test > Take a test

• The Zigzag Test application has a limited number of menus and items. This intentional simplicity facilitates using Zigzag Reader in the classroom. After having chosen the Tests > Take a test menu (or the short-cut Ctrl+F), each reader must identify himself by name or by some kind of code in the window that appears (cf. Note):
  
  
  
  Confirm your entry by clicking.
  
  
• Depending on how the command Tools > Build Test Sequence has been used, the reader will see a long or a short list of projects to do. Based on the parameter settings, the reader may or may not be constrained to doing the tests in the order presented. Accessible projects are shown in bold. Also, when the reader drags the mouse over them, a red arrow will appear beside the projects:
  
  
  
  The number of trials indicates the number of times the reader has previously taken the test in question.
  
  
• When no test has been previously selected in Zigzag Generator by means of the Tools > Build Test Sequence, the following window will appear :
  

  
  
  Follow the instructions by selecting at least one Zigzag project. Then return to Zigzag Test and select one or many tests, depending on the choice you have just made in the Zigzag Generator.
  
  
  
  
  Note. It is important that a reader always identify himself the same way when using the Zigzag Test application, for two main reasons:
  

  • Thanks to the menu Tools > Build test sequence in the Zigzag Generator application, the teacher can select which tests a given user will have access to on the classroom computer. Ex.:
    
    
    
    The teacher can also stipulate a predetermined order in which the user must take the selected tests. Also, the teacher can deny the classroom user the possibility of taking the same test more than once. Clearly, whether these constraints are respected depends entirely on whether the users always identify themselves the same way.
    
    
  • It is possible to display the results in Zigzag Calculator in many different ways. When users are allowed to take the same test repeatedly, the teacher can display the results as a function of a specific number of trials (two trails, for example). Identifying the number of test trials for a given user presupposes that he will always identify himself the same way.

   

  
  
  

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