Computest: A Computer Language for Individual Testing, Instruction, and Interviewing

The structure and operation of a computer language is presented, an arrangement which allows machine simulation of individual testing, instruction, and interviewing. Sequences of test questions may be written in natural language and a variety of cues may be used for the recognition of a right answer from typewriter input. Variable comments may be stored which are typed for either a right or a wrong answer. Choice of the next question to be asked may be determined by the evaluation of an answer, and scoring is optional for each question. Presented examples demonstrate operation on the IBM 1620.