How does the HamTestOnline™ website decide which questions to present?
The program uses special formulas to calculate a “score” for each question, its estimate (on a scale from 0% to 100%) of how well you know the answer to the question. Some of the factors that go into this calculation are: • Your correct and incorrect answer history for the question. • How many times you use the Show answer, 50/50, and hint buttons. • Your answer history for linked questions. • How difficult other students find the question. • How quickly you learned other questions in the same subtopic. The program presents questions based on their current scores and on the elapsed time since they were last asked. It tries to avoid repeating any question “too” soon. It repeats questions with low scores sooner than questions with higher scores. As the score for a question increases — as you start to master the information — you see it less often. The “intelligent repetition” algorithm matches the way people learn.
