True Test Writer (TTW) was created to assist in writing large numbers of high quality questions from current class activities and reading assignments. They were needed in paper tests administered to measure knowledge and judgment. Students were given the responsibility to report what they knew or could do with confidence, based on their judgment. This is the basis for authentic assessment. Such testing demands timely, high quality, questions as part of an instructional system. Each topic file holds up to 200 questions. Each test is formatted manually or automatically from one or a number of topic files.

TTW contains the same question editor designed for students to record what they learn as they make sense of an assignment using True Study Skills in report, review, and tutorial question files. TTW creates more complex tests. TTW creates single column and double column (NCLEX style) tests. It also creates multiple version tests that can be reduced to one item analysis by True Score. You have one analysis to review rather than one for each version.

The question editor prompts for a seven part paragraph: (1) a descriptive question stem, (2-3) acceptable labels or answers and (4-7) related labels and answers that are not acceptable or within desired limits. Only parts (1) and (2) are required. These seven parts are then recombined into over two dozen different questions. The editor prompts from the known to the unknown, from description, to label, classify, relate, and apply in the manner of natural language development.

True Test Writer can be used alone or as part of a complete system of clerical and statistical support for an instructional system. After a question is entered by either True Study Skills or True Test Writer, it never has to be entered again. This makes student authored report question files a unique source of diagnostic questions that contain many wrong answers that students at one point in their learning considered to be right.