Chapter 6 Recipes and Examples

This chapter provides concrete recipes and examples for creating innovative assessments using the CBA ItemBuilder. The first section 6.1, starts with tips about regular expressions, mainly used for scoring purposes and to restrict the possible text input. The subsequent sections focus on resource files (i.e., images, audio, and video files; see section 6.2) and on the global properties (i.e., definitions that a shared within a CBA ItemBuilder project file; see section 6.3). Examples illustrating the use of Conditional Links and Finite-State Machines syntax for different purposes are described in section 6.4. Section 6.5 focuses on digital calculators and the implementation using either Finite-State Machines or ExternalPageFrames. More examples for the use of HTML5/JavaScript content with ExternalPageFrames are provided in section 6.6. Section 6.7 summarizes possible approaches to implementing adaptive assessments using the CBA ItemBuilder. Finally, section 6.8 focuses on efficiency and tricks to implement content using the CBA ItemBuilder with less effort, and section 6.9 refers to creating items in multiple languages.