AVELife TestGold Studio
Complex solution for educational and psychological testing
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Official web site: www.avelifesystems.com
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Purpose
AVELife TestGold Studio is the powerful, stable, easy-to-master and easy-to-use, professional looking tool for pre-employment screening, periodical certifications, training and retraining of your staff and students – from test development to testing and monitoring scores.
Features
AVELife TestGold Studio is a professional looking software: We have tried to make very impressive, up-to-date, easy-to-master and easy-to-use user interface with opportunity to adjust its stylistic and color appearance to your own taste.
AVELife TestGold Studio is fully integrated in one workspace with MDI environment for test development: Consistently improving technology, we have disclaimed common simplified approach to divide whole product into several non-interacting programs (development, testing, score monitoring) and successfully implemented technically more complex, single system with all features accessible in one workspace, that permits you to work more efficiently. Moreover, you can easily create and edit tests in convenient MDI environment.
TestGold can be used both on network and local computers: If you have computer network, you can configure the software for use of common server database from all workstations. Data exchange with local computers outside the network is provided by means of unloading and transferring the data on floppy and compact discs. NEW!
Test session data can be unloaded and sent by e-mail for adding them to common database.
AVELife TestGold Studio has the improved flexible 3-Variant Data Storage Engine: NEW!
You can choose the most preferable place for storing the application data: special local file storage, MS Access® or Microsoft® SQL Server™ database.
TestGold is a very cost-effective solution with small requirements to computers for testing: NEW!
Light-weight program AVELife TestGold Agent is designed specifically for testing and capable to work quickly enough even on out-of-date low-powered computers. It is a freeware and it can be used completely for free, including distant tesing of your students and employees. That’s why TestGold is very cost-effective now.
TestGold offers complex test format:
| | · | psychological and educational testing;
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| | · | 12 question types (psychological, alternative, likert scale (3-option), likert scale (5-option), single response, multiple response, ranking, multiple matching, free-form single response, free-form multiple response, free-form ranking, essay);
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| | · | question weight according to its relative complexity;
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| | · | limit of answer time for test question and test session in whole;
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| | · | restriction of test session running by sex and age of the user, which are also taken into account at session outcomes;
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| | · | random order (randomization) of test questions and question choices during test session;
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| | · | question tips, used at testing, decreasing sum total of intermediate points;
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| | · | training testing with question feedback (text + multimedia), activated on wrong answer;
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| | · | extended test description (category, subcategory, splash, purpose, instruction, information about developer and author);
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| | · | test protection by password on editing, registration, testing;
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| | · | test can be divided into sections (subtests, groups of questions with equal type or weight) with opportunity to select the limited number of section questions at testing automatically;
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| | · | NEW! free formatted test introduction with display limitation by time and period;
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| | · | NEW! complex psychological tests with multifactor outcome system as total summary, accentuation discovery, most and least expressive factors + optional comprehensive analysis.
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AVELife TestGold Studio introduces improved score system and different types of grades: You can set rules of charging of intermediate points at educational testing both on a level of test and application in whole. For example, you can set following score options for the question of Multiple response type: “Points for the Refusal of Granting the Answer”, “Points for Every Right Choice”, “Points for Every Refusal of Choosing Wrong Choice”, “Points for Every Wrong Choice” (also you can use default values). There are some groups of options for each question type and options common for all question types. 4 types of grades are possible at educational testing: “Percent rating” (grade is a percentage of earned intermediate points to maximum possible one), “Numerical system” (grade is in the range of 1 to N, where N is a maximum; each grade corresponds to some percentage), “German system” (1 is a maximum, N is a minimum), “Alphabetic grade” (American system: grades are letters A, B, C, D, E).
AVELife TestGold Studio maintains wide range of multimedia formats: Tests can contain multimedia data of different formats, including those permitting compression: 31 image formats and numerous audio and video formats.
AVELife TestGold Studio includes powerful built-in text editor for formatting of questions and choices: You can set font, color of symbols and background, make symbols subscript and superscript, use paragraphs, bullets and numbering, built-in and background images, tables (including embedded), Flash- and OLE-objects (schemes, formulas, etc.) hyperlinks and special symbols and more and more. When you edit the text, “live spelling” is made (incorrect text is marked by a red wavy line).
AVELife TestGold Studio implements flexible reporting: When you make a report, you can choose one of the available templates. Using built-in report editor you can easily create your own report templates or improve some of 17 delivered with the software.
AVELife TestGold Studio provides multilevel system of data security: Managing security is ensured through fixing of special access profiles and accounts and authorized log on, logging of user actions. Moreover, you can use password protection to restrict test editing, test registering and testing. In addition, the data are strongly protected with use of the latest encryption techniques.
AVELife TestGold Studio has standard and advanced features of computer aided testing systems: Managing users with use of photo and up to 5 additional fields in user account; Running test session with result storing; Monitoring scores with making of pie chart for some test session and bar charts for comparative analysis of testing results by user sampling or chronological tracing of results of some user. NEW!
Total Summary is a new function of vertical analysis of testing results in the context of some user, including both psychological portrait and overall picture of professional skills and knowledge of the person.
AVELife TestGold Studio is easy-to-master and easy-to-use from first steps: We have realized handy user interface and written comprehensive documentation specifically for you. NEW!
You can easily import already prepared test blanks from text files in RTF or TXT format. NEW! You can import user & access accounts from CSV-file.
Registration
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AVELife TestGold Studio is a free-to-try software. It means that you can download trial version and use it during 14 days for free to make sure of functionality, reliability, attractiveness and user friendliness of the software, then purchase software license and continue its use.
Buy AVELife TestGold Studio and get:
| · | Special registration code (“Activation Key”) for activation of full without time-limit registered version of the software;
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| · | 1-year free technical support by e-mail;
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| · | Minor updates (3.x) completely for free and upgrade for version 4 with great discount;
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| · | Possibility to state your wishes and suggestions on software improvement;
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| · | Notifications of new product releases, betas and other product information.
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System requirements
| | 1. | Hardware requirements:
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| | · | Processor: Pentium II class or higher;
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| | · | RAM: at least 256 MB (512 MB and more better);
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| | · | Video: screen resolution should be no less 600×800 (1280×1024 and more better);
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| | · | Disc Space: ~ 30 MB for software installation + space for storing of tests and database.
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| | 2. | Software requirements:
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| | · | Operating system: Windows® 2000/NT4/XP/2003 or higher.
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Feedback
info@avelifesystems.com – Marketing department (common questions);
sales@avelifesystems.com – Sales department (questions on software purchase);
support@avelifesystems.com – Maintenance department (technical support for registered users).
See Also:
License Agreement
Ordering Information
AVELife Corporate Web Site
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