SAM Challenge

Your mission: Get a computer literacy exam program up and running for hundreds-even thousands- of incoming students.

IMPOSSIBLE? Hardly. But experience tells you that cobbling together a paper-and-pencil computer proficiency test for hundreds - or thousands - of incoming students opens up a world of questions. How many test-takers will make lucky guesses in the spreadsheet section of the exam - versus having a true understanding of how to write an Excel formula? What percentage of students will use "wandering eyes" to achieve a higher score? Once the exams are complete and passed in, how many resources will it take to hand-grade them? Even if you're lucky enough to have access to a scanning system for scoring, how will you glean statistical information from your test results?

SAM Challenge is a better alternative. This powerful assessment software harnesses the power of active simulated technology so students can demonstrate skill mastery in Microsoft Office, Windows and the Internet. Plus, tens of thousands of traditional objective-based questions allow you to test knowledge on basic to advanced computer concepts and much more.

	Hands-on active simulations allow students to perform real-world computer tasks.
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EXAM CREATION MADE EASY
The SAM Challenge system lets you build campus-wide computer proficiency exams in minutes - not hours. You can test students on a single application or present a comprehensive Microsoft Office and concepts exam with just a few clicks of your mouse. Powerful security features like password verification, task scrambling and more guard against student cheating, while the built-in scheduling tool allows you to manage when and where your exams can be accessed.

	Create highly secure, comprehensive placement exams in minutes.
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GRADING AND REPORTING YOU CAN COUNT ON
SAM Challenge's superior grading and reporting technology captures each student keystroke during the exam, which means you can draw on data that goes way beyond a raw score. Evaluate whether students are using the file menu or shortcut keys in Word to get a better perspective on how to teach subsequent courses. Understand why students can split - but not compact - an Access database. Even analyze the average length of time it takes each of your 5,000 students to insert a VLOOKUP function in Excel.

	Determine student strengths and weaknesses on a wide scale.
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- View the SAM Challenge Demo!

If, after taking a SAM Challenge exam, your students need to be placed into a course, why not continue teaching, testing, and training with one or more of the trusted SAM Assessment & Training family of products?

New Features in SAM Challenge 3.1

• SAM Challenge exams may include content from any of the following applications: Word 2003, Excel 2003, Access 2003, PowerPoint 2003, Windows XP or 2000, and Internet.
• Challenge exams may also include objective-based questions to enable instructors to administer a full scale computer competency test.
• Several core software components and procedures have been updated to enhance the performance and stability of SAM Challenge 3.1.
• Objective-based test bank question engine offers improved performance, more accurate time-related data, and question text viewable in the “View All” window.

In addition to the new features in version 3.1, SAM Challenge offers a wealth of functionality that makes it the leading computer proficiency testing solution for Microsoft Office 2003.

• Open Simulations: Hands-on, skills-based assessment in Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Windows, and Internet tasks are so life-like, your students will have trouble distinguishing them from the real thing!.
• Reports include a break down of performance data by application and a snapshot of student scores at the top of each report.
• Testcenter page provides one-stop access to essential student and session details in one place so that proctors can easily manage a test on exam day.
• Student Auto-Enroll allows students to sign up for a test on their own. (Instructors set this option.)
• More than 60,000 true/false, multiple-choice, matching, and other objective-based questions on important computer topics.
• Powerful Security Options, like password verification and task randomizing, guard against cheating.