Drill Designer

Drill Designer 1.1 for the Macintosh is a package of HyperCard XCMD's and Think C functions for creating instructional drill programs in HyperCard, Authorware, or Think C. These commands facilitate the creation of a queue of items and the subsequent modification of that queue based on correct and incorrect responses from a student. The primary feature of item queuing with Drill Designer 1.1 is that it keeps track of performance on each item and provides more practice with those items answered incorrectly, thereby increasing the drill's efficiency. Drill Designer 1.1 commands do not do any presentation to or input from the student -- your own code must do that. Drill Designer 1.1 keeps track of the item queue, permits automatic or manual modification of the queue, and provides disk storage and retrieval of student performance and progress. The instructional theory underlying Drill Designer 1.1 is described in Chapter 3 of Computer-Based Instruction: Methods and Development, by Steve Alessi and Stan Trollip, published by Allyn & Bacon. Drill authors should have a good working knowledge of either HyperCard, Authorware, or Think C, whichever will be used to produce drills. Hardware Requirements: Macintosh Centris or higher. Software Requirements - Macintosh System 7 or later and one of the following: HyperCard (version 2.0 or later), Authorware Professional (version 2.2 or later), or Think C (4.0 or later). Manuals and shareware registration forms are included in both TeachText and Microsoft Word formats. The package is a binhex'ed and self-expanding Stuffit archive. There is a $30 shareware fee if you choose to use Drill Designer 1.1 for creating and distributing your own drill programs. This software package may be freely distributed in its entirety, and may be included on other software archives and CD's. A similar package for DOS and Windows is also available in the SimTel archive. Stephen M. Alessi The University of Iowa [email protected]