It is distributed to the instructor, who reviews the program's grade, adds any relevant comments, and mails it to the student, via standard mail or e-mail. The Exam Protocol provides a detailed record of the exam activity. It records and time-stamps the student's answer for every test item visited, in sequence, both during the exam and during feedback review. This data is stored after every student action, so it can be used to recover the exam in the event of a power or system failure. The Exam Protocol also provides UESP researchers with a powerful data collection tool to serve as a resource in analyzing test-taking behavior.
CATS also addresses the administrative components of the exam process.
Exams can be distributed to remote testing sites over the network, and exam results can be electronically retrieved from the testing machines and electronically distributed to faculty for final grading. Bell Atlantic support helped to purchase testing machines, software, and some programming support. To create a completely secure system, the production version was developed to run in the Windows NT environment as a 32-bit application. All Rights Reserved.