A world wide web based experiment in distance assessment utilizing an experimental calculator designed for use in free to the end user distance education.

William Overington

This assessment is experimental, yet it is a real assessment. It is an experiment in free to the end user distance education. The assessment assumes that the candidate has studied the document demo0001.htm entitled "Example use of an experimental calculator designed for use in free to the end user distance education." which is available on this web site and is able to carry out the exercises in it. Some of the questions use the information in that document directly though other questions need the user to investigate the usage of some of the buttons of the calculator that are not mentioned in that document. Scrolling down on the calculator allows the user to view the message window. Clicking a calculating button states its function in the message window.

The questions may take a while to complete so users who access via a modem may prefer to download the following five files to local hard storage and then access fram0002.htm using a browser when working offline.
fram0002.htm is the frameset file which coordinates this text and the calculator together upon the same screen at the same time.
demo0002.htm is this text.
demo9000.gif is the background colour of this text.
calc0001.htm is the calculator.
calc9000.gif is the background colour of the calculator.
It may be helpful also to mention here two other files.
fram0001.htm is the frameset file which coordinates the explanatory text about the calculator and the calculator together upon the same screen at the same time.
demo0001.htm is the explanatory text about the calculator.
The file demo0001.htm uses the same background demo9000.gif as previously mentioned.

This document is the author's personal learning and research in distance education methods.