Re: [school-discuss] test generation and public commons data

[robin <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>]

Dennis Daniels wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm looking for texts that I can use legally to create publishable 
> quizzes for English literature and other ed. domains.
>
> I'm aware of PG http://www.promo.net/pg/ (Good for the 'classics')
> and
> creative commons http://search.creativecommons.org/
> and
> wikipedia
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (Great site!)
>
> In the process I stumbled across
> rmutt http://www.schneertz.com/rmutt/docs.html
>
> and thought that was really cool... unfortunately it doesn't seem to 
> allow a user to reference a secondary text files for populating nouns 
> for example.
>
> I've recently discovered that I can run style and diction from my php 
> pages and it's fired my imagination on what else can be done with text 
> provided there was a library of contemporary and classic docs that can 
> be used by teachers everywhere.
>
> My goal is to create thousands of multiple choice questions that can be 
> freely used by teachers every where. I'm working on a script that will 
> read in a list of target words, lift and CLOZE the words from texts and 
> generate questions using the original text as the source for the reading 
> comprehension. I'm not much of a programmer so would appreciate any help 
> or guidance on this idea.
>
> Many thanks for tips, trick, advice.
> best
> Dennis
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Robin

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